と～と、どちらが Between ~ which one

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  modboy

  Does を ‘block’ the が here or is something else going on?

  犯人（はんにん）は逃（に）げるのと、警察（けいさつ）に行（い）くのとどちらを選（えら）ぶでしょう。

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  gyroninja

  There is no “blocking” going on. You are just using どちら with the を particle instead of the が particle.

  With 選ぶ, が marks who is making the choice and を marks what is being chosen.

  Edit: This might not be the entire story though. Take for example this example sentence from bunpro:

  二階（にかい）建（だ）てのマンションと 普通（ふつう）の家（いえ）とどちらが 住（す）んでみたい？

  Normally, に marks where you are living and が marks who is the one living. In this example it is using が with a location. Searching twitter どちらに住む is much more common than どちらが住む for choosing between two locations. Maybe this is just a case of どちらが being so common that people accidentally use it like this and common accidents eventually become standard use.

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  steffuld

  It looks like there’s a mistake in the Structure block? There should not be (1) next to こと.
  I think it meant to say that you can nominalize options expressed by verbs using both こと and の. And instead of どちら, どちらのほう, どっち, どっちのほう can be used.