<p>Is this correct? I prefer shopping than cycling.</p>
<p>or </p>
<p>I prefer shopping to cycling</p>
<p>when do i use "than" and when do i use than</p>
<p>its prefer over. i prefer cycling over running</p>
<p>so would using “to” instead of over be wrong?</p>
<p>It’s not prefer over, it’s prefer to. Prefer already implies you prefer it over something else, adding an over is redundant. The idiomatically correct would be prefer to something.</p>
<p>I believe that both “prefer to” and “prefer over” work, but the former is more common.</p>