I'm facing to a little grammatical problem.
While I was practicing my English with the make/do usage, I answered myself:
What should I choose in this sentence,
a. make rather than do
b. make or rather do.
As you see the problem is about the usage of "rather" and his other form "or rather". In my native language this two forms are completely different, because rather is used when we are decided about something :
In this case I would rather choose the blue car.
Whereas, the "or rather" form is opposed to the first one. We use it to share our indecision.
I have a preference for the blue car, or rather the red one.
Best Answer
Neither expression is the right choice in this situation.
If you have not decided yet, and are contemplating the decision, then simple 'or' should suffice:
Additional words you can use are "perhaps", "maybe" and similar.
If you lean towards one choice already, then your "rather... than" could work, and then it's not a question anymore, it's a statement:
The second sentence here is incomplete, the predicate is missing, but colloquially, and in ruminations (talking to yourself), they are fine.