How to Use TO & FOR ⚡️English Prepositions | Common Grammar Mistakes
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- TO & FOR These English prepositions can be confusing!
Today, you’ll practise how to use the prepositions ‘to’ and ‘for’ correctly in English sentences.
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Want to keep practising with me? Here are some other mmmEnglish lessons about prepositions:
English prepositions of PLACE: czcams.com/video/XzkbcWh8s4w/video.html
English prepositions of TIME: czcams.com/video/k8JRYf8vy2A/video.html
Study the 10 MOST COMMON GRAMMAR MISTAKES that English learners make 👉 czcams.com/video/soN1qPcSDVo/video.html
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I prefered maths to litterature training.
Question : can I use the word " since " to refer the starting point in the future?
Fix any mistakes made in the comments please.
Thanks a lot teacher "for" that vidio please can you do vidio about "of " when and where we use it ? ❤
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Usage of To:
1.) Direction/Destination
2.) Time/Time between two points
3.) Preference
4.) Limit/Endpoint
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•Use of TO
1.direction(I walk to shop)
2.limit (The water is up to sea level)
3 time (The shop is open 10.00 to 11.00 pm)
4.preference (I like coffee to tea)
• The use of for
1.help( I help for my grand mother)
2.benefit(water help for our immunity system)
3.past action(I have been waiting here for 30 minutes)
4.functional use (Its used for drinking)
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Extremely close, but several important corrections:
1. “I walk to shop” should be “I walk to *the* shop” because without the definite article, “to shop” becomes the to-infinitive verb.
3 “The shop is open 10.00 to 11.00 pm” is acceptable but “The shop is open *from* 10.00 to 11.00 pm” is more natural.
4. “I like coffee to tea” is incorrect; it should be “I *prefer* coffee to tea” or (if you insist on using “like”) “I like coffee *more than* tea.”
• The use of for
1. “help” (if an object is present) requires a direct object, particularly if “for” is used. Also, “grand mother” is one word so it should be “I *help my grandmother for* my grandfather.”
2. Again, if *help* is used and there is any object, then there must be a direct object. “Water helps our immunity system”.
Other than those things, you did well.
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This video is pure gold. I have been studying English for nearly 40 years, and no teachers explained to me how to use to or for properly to make sentences using them correctly... I had to learn it on my own by listening to the people when I kept conversations...
Thanks a lot!
I primarily used to suffer the correct using of articles. After huge effort and practices, I have made significant improvement now. Prepositions are also made me unprofessional on my academic work. And your videos can help me to avoid those confusions. Your presentation is clean and pretty much on target. Keep up the good work as we are benefiting a lot.
You are absolutely right
1. direction/movements
2. preferences
3.time/ time between two points
4. limits/endpoints
To: 1. destination 2. time between two points 3. preference 4. limit/endpoint. This is such a magnificent lesson.
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Thank you for making this lesson, emma and finally i can understand how to use TO and FOR.
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Hello teacher, now my confusion about the use of to and for is gone.
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To : destination/direction, time, prefer, end point
For : benefits, duration of time, helping someone (favor), function
To & for : reason/motive
To when motive/reason is a verb
For when motive/reason is a noun
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Can you make a video one topic "of" preposition
Of course
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1. Direction/destination 2. Time 3. Prefer, 4. End point
Common usage of "to":
1) direction / destination
2) limit/ endpoint
3) preference over than other things
4) distance or time between two points
Hello this video is so good to study preposition 'to' and 'for', I learned to not confuse definitely preposition ‘to’ and ‘for’. Thank you for helping me!!!!
This is an excellent lesson. Teaching and learning prepositions is not easy.
To feel the difference of the use of FOR and TO it is necessary to think in English. Your reasoning on those two little words is a perfect presentation.
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Could you give an example for "apply to someone"?
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hi emma i love this video, so we use "for" :
benefits or duration or functions or for someone
● Use of TO
1)Direction { I walk to office.}
2)Limit{ There is no water up to sea level.}
3)Time{ My shop is open 7:00 to 9:00pm.}
4)Preference{ I prefer chocolate to ice - cream}
● Use of FOR
1)Benefits{ Carrot is great for your height.}
2)Help{ I help for my mother.}
3)Past Action{ I have been so late for atleast 10 minutes.}
4)Functional use{ Its used for dancing.}
I hope you like it my examples emma😁
How perfect you are ! i really enjoy and understand the lesson and it was complication for me before this piece of art video. Thanks
To
1 Direction/Destination
Do you usually take the bus to work
If you're feeling sick you should talk to a doctor
2 Time between two points
It's a quarter to seven
It's five minutes to eight
I study English Monday to Thursday every week
3 Preference
He prefers riding is bike to walking
Do you prefer tea to coffe
4 Limit/End point
During the flood, the water came to my kness
The tickets could cost up to $200 each
For
1 Benefits
Ginger is great for you immune system
2 Period of time/Duration
They've been living in the city for three years already
I've been waiting for twenty minutes already where are you?
3 Helping someone
I baked a cake for my sister
Hey, can you grab those boxes for me?
4 Fuction/Use
for+verb-ing
That camera is used for taking pictures underwater
To&For Reason/Motive
Use To when the motive or reason is a verb
Use For when the motive or reason is a noun
Now my personal advice is that you shouldn't try to remember all of this things (aye keep in mind) but instead watch some movies or listen to music and enjoy the process :)
Thanks for your note, it is really useful.
It's a good lesson.Sometimes we forget how to use the correct preposition.The most important things are the examples that you gave in the video.Thanks a lot.
Benefit
Helping someone
Duration or period of time
Function or use
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Very helpful lessons. Hope to have a session for using For & Of as well. This more complicate than to&for
Thanks for the suggestion!
It was the one of the best "to and for" preposition lesson for a long time 👍 Every second of this record is very very tutorial.
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@@mmmEnglish_Emma when I want to say
Say hello to my doctor or for my doctor
What is the right?
Dear Teacher
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English.
I prefer walking in the morning to running at night. USE TO 1. direction & destination 2. Time & time between two points 3. preference 4. limit & endpoint. USE FOR - 1. benefits, duration or period of time, helping someone and function or use.
I use to, I like talking to you, Why are you helping for, I've been using my laptop for three hours. He wanted to help us for his own purpose.
Excellent class! I enjoyed it a lot! I liked this sentence:
"Sometimes languages don't really rely on prepositions much at all."
I will try to apply this kind of sentence in my speaking.
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1- when talking about time, about direction, about limit, and about prefrences
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Dear Emma, especially thank you for this lesson. This subject really complicate but I understood better when you tell. Just discovered to your channel, it's great. At the same, time, my example is in the
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عبbenefits, duration, helping someone and function or use
1.benefits or good
2.for helping someone
3.function
1) direction ( I moved to America
2) point between 2 times (I usually work from 7am to 7pm)
3) Preference (I like chicken to mutton)
4) limit ( after a heavy food, I feel like food rose up to my throat)
It's adequate for me to understand.Thanks for an enthusiastic provider.😁😘
Finally I understood the difference between these prepositions! it would have taken me months to study this topic in Russia!
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1. For benefits
2. For time in present perect tense
3. For functions
4. For some persons
4: for help someone*
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I have neverd heard, and consequently, never used the preposition "to" as a way of showing any preference. This is very new to me so I'm gonna practice by creating sentences I could use. If anyone can give me any feedback I'd be so grateful! :)
1. I rather listen to music on my speaker to using headphones.
2. I prefer walking to riding a bus.
3. On vacation, I rather go to the beach to discovering any urban city. (I figured saying: "I rather go to the beach to discover any urban city could be confusing but I'm not sure I can mix up different times in the same sentence).
4. Do you prefer rock to pop?
Feels very odd to me!
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Great lesson, Emma!
Here’s a couple of collocations that has no explanation:
“It doesn’t matter TO me”
however
“It’s all the same FOR me”
Thank you Emma for your constant work on our language skills improvement!! 👍🏻
"It doesn't matter to me" is actually showing the opinion of the person.
And in the next one,
"It's all the same for me" shows effect of something on the noun.
I hope this might help😊
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Not clear. I see no substantial difference in those.
Honestly, “all the same for me” is still my opinion about something.
Accordingly, a choice of similar things, does not impress me, no effect at all cause I don’t care
Use of for
1. Tense
2. Helping
3. Time / duration
4. Uses / Function
You explained very well thanks a lot.
Hi, there! This is Gaby from Argentina. Thank you very much for posting these useful videos. I really like them! I'm a teacher of English here in my home country and, more often than not, we come across sentences like "One of the advantages TO living in the city is....." and the paragraph immediately after that says "One of the disadvantages OF living in the city is..." - Is there any significant difference between TO and OF in this case? If you had a video approaching this grammar point, I would be more than glad to watch it and share it with my students. Thank you!
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Actually, advantage OF doing a thing. DoING because of the preposition OF. That's it!
@@Helmarful Thank you for your feedback. Of course since OF is a preposition, we need to use a gerund after it. The question would be: Would you ever use "The advantage to + ING?" IF so, what would the difference be? The advantage to using technology in the classroom vs. The advantage of using technology in the classroom. Since OF and TO are prepositions, we need -ING after them.
@@GabrielaAttar Hi, Gaby! Thanks for the reply.Yeah, difference is that the preposition TO " The advantage TO usING " is part of the previous expression, I mean, TO has been attached to the noun " advantage ". Otherwise, I would've used the infinitive of the verb " to use " in the sentence " The advantage TO use ( infinitive).
The uses of for:
1. Duration
2.Benefits
3.Asking someone a favor
4. Function
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Thank you very mucha for your taught. I learned in this lesson to use "TO" and "FOR" I'll go over them again.
I a lot of sentences rely on prepositiones. I some occasions am using wrongly the prepositions. I sticked until end of the la lesson. l would like keep watching other videos. Thank you very mucha again.
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thanks you, it really helps! could you please explain a bit about key TO the door and solution TO a problem?
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Definitely this lesson provide very important and useful information about how to use 'to' & 'for' in sentences making.
Thank you.
1. I came to Delhi to work.
2. I came to Delhi for a job.
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