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Using the prepositions TO and FOR

Curso Avançado: gramática, In English Por: Mary em 24/05/2007
When do you use the preposition to and when do you use for? FOR is used to express doing something on someone’s behalf. TO expresses direction.

Examples:

FOR

I hurt my hand and cannot carry my books myself, can you carry them for me?
I also can’t use my hand to write. Can you write a letter for me, so I can send it to my mother?

TO

I am up on the ladder painting and I forgot the turpentine, but I don’t want to come down to get it. Can you carry the turpentine to me?

Could you send the letter you wrote for me to my mother? Or should I send it to her when I finish painting?

I also can’t use my hand to write. Can you write a letter for me, so I can send it to my mother?

I am up on the ladder painting and I forgot the turpentine, but I don’t want to come down to get it. Can you carry the turpentine to me?

Could you send the letter you wrote for me to my mother? Or should I send it to her when I finish painting?

TEST YOUR MEMORY - TRY IT YOURSELF

1. I hurt my hand and cannot carry my books myself, can you carry them ____ me?

2. I also can’t use my hand to write. Can you write a letter ____ me, so I can send it ____ my mother?

3. I am up on the ladder painting and I forgot the turpentine, but I don’t want to come down to get it. Can you carry the turpentine ____ me?

4. Could you send the letter you wrote ____ me ____ my mother? Or should I send it ____ her when I finish painting?

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9 comentários em “Using the prepositions TO and FOR”

  1. Anonymous disse:
    May 24th, 2007 at 1:50 am

    Sorry, but i cant understand the differences between to and for in this phrases…

  2. Fabio Sacco disse:
    May 24th, 2007 at 10:12 am

    A diferença entre to e for é que o to é usado com o sentido de para (destino) e o for é usado como o por (fazendo um favor, etc):

    Escreva uma carta para minha mãe (Write a letter to my mother)
    Escreva uma carta para minha mãe por mim (Write a letter for me to my mother)

  3. Rafael disse:
    May 24th, 2007 at 7:02 pm

    Olá amigos, alguem pode me explicar oq significa “A.D.” ? Pelo que sei seria como “Depois de Cristo” porém não sei a tradução literal.
    Exemplo: “6th century A.D.”
    T+

  4. Anonymous disse:
    May 24th, 2007 at 9:50 pm

    Anno Domini (Latin : “In the year of (Our) Lord”[1]), abbreviated as AD or A.D., defines an epoch based on the traditionally reckoned year of the conception or birth of Jesus of Nazareth.
    …

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anno_Domini

  5. DANIELLE E ARIANE disse:
    August 21st, 2007 at 7:53 pm

    GOSTEI MUITO DESSAS EXPLICAÇÃES QUEBROU UM GALHO PARA MIM E PARA MINHA AMIGUINHA ARIANE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BJK TCHAU…..

  6. gabriela disse:
    October 23rd, 2007 at 9:44 am

    how can I s ay in English “estou boiando!” não sei nada.
    and “festa de arromba”

    Thanks

  7. Fernando Franca disse:
    December 3rd, 2007 at 8:31 am

    Thank you English Experts for the clear explanations. I think spoken English is important if we want to make friends or something, but if we want to study, formal pronouciation plays a role and you have been helping a lot in this respect. thank you very much.

  8. maria disse:
    April 4th, 2008 at 8:58 am

    Eu gostei muito dessas dicas. Gostaria de ouvir mais palavras, em engles!

  9. Mary disse:
    July 31st, 2008 at 3:51 pm

    Thank you Fabio for your translation. Para and por create the same kind of difficulties for Portuguese as a Second Language learners.

    Fabio was explaining this for me (in my place, instead of me) because people didn`t understand the explanation. Fabio was explaining to English language learners for me.

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