About [metal used for guns]

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Hello,In{ Metal used for guns.}, does the [for] mean "according to the purpose of guns"?Thank you for your help.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

I would say 'for making' guns <img class='emoticon' style='Width:19px;Height:19px;' data-delaysrc='https://uat-englishforward-forums-backend.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/Emoticons/1.gif' src='https://uat-englishforward-forums-backend.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/Emoticons/1.gif' alt='Emotion: smile'/>

Bepleased · Answer

Hello,May ask you for the connotation of your saying?1. Did you mean that  [metal used] is to support guns made or as a means of guns made?2. There is [metal used] in guns made. And guns made is an intended aim and [metal used] is needed for the aim.

Khoff · Answer

Bepleased, I still don't understand why you make everything so complicated. It seems to me that you always take a very simple, clear sentence (like "Metal is used for making guns") and propose several completely unintelligible (to me at least) possible interpretations of it. Do you actually not understand the simple sentence, or are you trying to analyze it at a much philosophical level that is much deeper than its normal meaning?

bepleasedDid you mean that [metal used] is to support guns made or as a means of guns made?2.

How would "metal used" support "guns made"? How would it be "a means of guns made"? The guns are made of metal. First there is a lump of metal, and then someone transforms the metal into a gun. Metal is the physical material from which the guns are made -- not wood, not sand, not paper. Where does "support" or "means" or "intended aim" enter into it?

I wonder -- when you post questions here, do you ever get the kind of answers you are hoping for? Maybe other people understand your questions better than I do.

Bepleased · Answer

Hello khoff,Yes, you're right. I am in deep t rouble about the two directions of the [for]. May it be "under a direction of" or "in a direction of "?I need your help to make sense of the [for] clear unto me. I have no clear sense without your sugessions.

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