2020-04-24
8 分钟Hi there.
This is Harry, and welcome to my podcast, where I try to help you to improve your English by helping you find your way through idioms, idiomatic expressions, phrasal verbs, and general grammar rules so that you can have better and more professional english conversations.
So, what do I have for you in this podcast?
Well, what we're going to look at now is the difference of the use of, for and to, for and to.
So how do we use them and in what way do we use them?
So we're using these and this particular podcast to express a purpose.
Okay, so how do we use for or to when we want to express a purpose?
So for or to usually with the infinitive, for an individual purpose.
Okay, so for is commonly used with nouns to express a particular individual purpose.
Let me give you an example.
I popped into the supermarket for some apples on the way home, okay.
I popped meaning I called into the supermarket for some apples on the way home.
That was my purpose, to buy the apples.
So it's not I popped into the supermarket for buying some apples.
It's I popped into the supermarket for some apples on the way home.
I stopped by at his office for a chat about our marketing strategy.
I stopped by at his office for a chat about our marketing strategy.
Not I stopped by at his office for having a chat about marketing, okay.
I stopped by at his office.
I called into his office for a chat for a conversation about our marketing strategy.