Everyday very useful English idioms and phrases rather than instead of

Everyday English Idioms and phrases ( 2 Idioms in English )
1. Rather than
2. Instead of

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Welcome back to another Idioms and Expressions video.
My name is Thomas, and today we’re going to talk about, “rather than vs. instead of.”
Alright, so, rather than, basically is showing preference.
“What I like.” or “What you like.”
Right, so for example, in my sentence I have: “I like kissing rather than holding hands.”
Probably married folks or married people like holding hands a lot better than kissing, but younger folks these days or younger people, they like kissing, probably a lot more.
So, okay, if you notice, the form that I’m using here, “I like kissing rather than holding hands,” right.
Every time that you use, rather than, you must use the same form of a verb or noun, right, in the beginning and or after rather than.
Okay, so just like I have used “ing” form here, we also have “ing” form here with hold.
Okay, so they’re both the same, it shows balance, basically. Right, now if we look at the second sentence, it’s basically the same sentence but different form.
I like to kiss rather than to hold hands.
Okay, in this case, I use to kiss and to hold.
But, they’re both the same form.
So, we have balance in the sentence.
So, every time they use rather than, remember to use the same form.
Also, remember, what you like is always in the beginning before rather than, and what you least like is after rather than.
Now we have instead of, instead of can be used the same way as rather than, right, showing preference. But, the main difference with instead of, is that, instead of can also be used, as substitution, in place of something.
In this case, it’s not saying that you like something, it’s saying that you’re going to do this in place of something else, which means or you want to eat something in place of something else. That does not mean you like it or do not like it. It just means, that right there you want to do something, or eat something then.
So, in my sentence we have, “Let’s walk instead of run.”
So we have, walk instead of run.
This does not say, that I like walking better than running.
It just says, “Let’s walk instead of run.”
Maybe, it’s easier for this person.
In another sentence, we could say, “I want the chicken, instead of beef.”
Okay, here have chicken and beef.
Is this showing preference? What you like? No.
All this is saying, is the person wants to have chicken, not beef.
It’s not saying that they like chicken more than beef.
And that’s the difference between instead of vs. rather than.
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[ricardorodriguez]

I'm still an english learner, but If I am not wrong, the penultimate sentence would be "Let's walk instead of running" because of the preposition "of" that makes all the verbs after that, have to go in gerund form.