Verbal short form の for expressing the idea of doing a verb ＋ のほうが / より


Okay so the のほうが / より combo is to my understanding used to say something is
more than or less than in Japanese and if you add の to the short form version
of a verb it the expresses the idea of doing that verb. If I wanted to say I
like doing something more than doing something else would combining these two
together be the correct way to say this? If so, how would this be written? I
have two different ideas about how it would be written, but I'm not really too
sure on either so I'll leave them in examples below.

> ex1. ぼくは およぐ **のの** ほうが さんぽするより すきです
>
> ex2. ぼくは およぐ **の** ほうが さんぽするより すきです

As you probably noted immediately the only real difference between the two is
the double の. Since they both use の I'm unsure if I would put two in like
example one or merge them together. Other than that I've really only seen
examples of the のほうが / より combo with nouns so I'm not too sure if this is even
the proper way using verbs.




With verbs, no の is necessary at all. You can say
[僕は泳ぐ方が散歩するより好きです]{ぼくはおよぐほうがさんぽするよりすきです}. That being said, as user4092 says,
you can use の, in which case it's
[僕は泳ぐのの方が散歩するより好きです]{ぼくはおよぐののほうがさんぽするよりすきです}. It's impermissible to only use
one の, because the two の are different. (Though it may have been permissible
archaically, where most particles could directly follow verbs.)




With verbs, no の is necessary at all. You can say
[僕は泳ぐ方が散歩するより好きです]{ぼくはおよぐほうがさんぽするよりすきです}. That being said, as user4092 says,
you can use の, in which case it's
[僕は泳ぐのの方が散歩するより好きです]{ぼくはおよぐののほうがさんぽするよりすきです}. It's impermissible to only use
one の, because the two の are different. (Though it may have been permissible
archaically, where most particles could directly follow verbs.)

