When it is used with past time reference,
would rather is followed by infinitive
have (without
to) + -
ed participle:
The people would rather have died than let the old-style conservatives back into
power again.
If the preference is for someone or something else to do something, then a past
tense is used in the reported clause, even when the reference is present or future
time:
You’d rather they didn’t say much about it then?
(You would prefer them not to say much about it then.)
I’ll call Madeleine if you’d rather she was present.
(I’ll call Madeleine if you’d prefer her to be present.)
However, in informal speech, an object pronoun plus infinitive without to may
occur:
IDo'stlaringiz bilan baham: