instead
instead后面的of当然是介词，但instead of后面也往往接名词和代词以外的词，如下面第一句里接形容词，第二句里接副词，第三句里接动词，第四句里接介词：
- Things are now better instead of worse.
- He walks slowly instead of quickly.
- That increased instead of decreased our anxiety.
- He laughed with instead of at us. （他跟我们一同笑，并不是嘲笑我们。）
