{"id":72139,"date":"2019-09-15T11:55:38","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T11:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=72139"},"modified":"2019-09-15T11:55:38","modified_gmt":"2019-09-15T11:55:38","slug":"ask-vs-ask-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/ask-vs-ask-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask vs. Ask For"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ask <\/b>is used without for<\/b> to ask somebody to tell something.<\/p>\n
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  • Don\u2019t ask him his age. <\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Ask for <\/b>is used to ask somebody to give something.<\/p>\n

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    • Don\u2019t ask me for money.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Ask<\/b> can be followed by an object.<\/p>\n

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      • Ask him.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        When ask <\/b>is followed by two objects, the indirect object (the person) usually comes first.<\/p>\n

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        • Ask him his name. (NOT <\/b>Ask his name to him.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
          Infinitive structures after ask<\/h5>\n

          Ask <\/b>can be followed by an infinitive.<\/p>\n

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          • I asked to leave. <\/b> (= I asked permission to leave.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

            Ask + object + infinitive <\/b>is also possible.<\/p>\n

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            • I asked him to leave. <\/b> (= I wanted him to leave.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

              Ask is used without for to ask somebody to tell something. Don\u2019t ask him his age. Ask for is used to ask somebody to give something. Don\u2019t ask me for money. Ask can be...<\/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":[1287,1288,1289],"class_list":["post-72139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-ask","tag-ask-for","tag-ask-vs-ask-for"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72139","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=72139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72140,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72139\/revisions\/72140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}