English Grammar Drills by Mark Lester

Author:Mark Lester
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Published: 2018-05-16T04:00:00+00:00

It is reasonably easy to predict which verbs take to and which take for. In general, to is used to describe something being transferred from one person to another, either physically or metaphorically.

Here are some examples of a physical transfer:

Notice in this last example how much more normal the to paraphrase sounds compared with the sentence in the original IO + DO order. The to/for paraphrase versions are much more commonly used than the IO + DO order.

Most of the indirect object + direct object verbs that use for in forming the to/for paraphrase have the basic meaning of doing or making something for the benefit of someone else. For example:

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