{"id":71911,"date":"2019-08-30T10:15:38","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T10:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=71911"},"modified":"2019-08-30T10:15:38","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T10:15:38","slug":"difference-between-to-and-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/difference-between-to-and-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Difference Between To And For"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Both <strong>for and to<\/strong> can be used to talk about somebody\u2019s purpose in doing something. The structures are different.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For<\/strong> is used to talk about purpose only when it is followed by a noun.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We stopped at the pub <strong>for a drink.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>I went to London <strong>for a conference.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For cannot be used before a verb to express a person\u2019s purpose. Instead, we use<strong> to.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We stopped at the pub <strong>to have<\/strong> a drink. (NOT We stopped at the pub for having a drink.)<\/li>\n<li>I went to London <strong>to attend<\/strong> a conference. (NOT I went to London for attending a conference.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>For<\/strong> can be used before an \u2013ing form to express the purpose of a thing.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An altimeter is used<strong> for measuring<\/strong> height above sea level. OR An altimeter is used to measure height above sea level.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When the clause has a person as subject, we usually use an infinitive to express the purpose of a thing.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We use an altimeter <strong>to measure<\/strong> height above sea level. (More natural than \u2018We use an altimeter for measuring height above sea level.\u2019)<\/li>\n<li>The garden shears were used<strong> to clip<\/strong> the hedge. OR The garden shears were used for clipping the hedge.<\/li>\n<li>We used garden shears <strong>to clip<\/strong> the hedge. (More natural than \u2018We used garden shears for clipping the hedge.\u2019)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both for and to can be used to talk about somebody\u2019s purpose in doing something. The structures are different. For is used to talk about purpose only when it is followed by a noun.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[1024,1023],"class_list":["post-71911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-difference-between-for-and-to","tag-for-or-to"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71912,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71911\/revisions\/71912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}