Brought you vs brought for you

I brought you some flowers.
I brought some flowers for you.

Both are correct and have the same meaning.

2.I brought some flowers for you? Perfectly fine.

Thank you! Sorry I didn't notice I misspelled "flowers" in the second sentence.

One more question regarding this, do your answers apply to

1. This deal will buy us more time.
2. This deal will buy more time for us.

For some reason to me it seems like the second one is either much less common or just unnatural.

MustAskFor some reason to me it seems like the second one is either much less common or just unnatural.

You’re right. The idiom buy time doesn’t occur with a for-phrase. However, you can buy someone a book or buy a book for someone.

MustAsk-
1.I brought you some flowers.
2.I brought some flowers for you?

In case you're interested there are at least 100 verbs in English that allow this alternation. Here are a few representative samples.

build me a house / build a house for me
bake me a cake / bake a cake for me
mix me a drink /

But it's tell me a story/ tell a story to me? Am I right?

Tell me a story.

MustAskBut it's tell me a story/ tell a story to me? Am I right?

Tell me a story =- more common, especially for pronouns

Tell a story to the children. = OK

MustAskBut it's tell me a story/ tell a story to me? Am I right?

Yes. Some verbs have an alternation with 'for'; others alternate with 'to'.

I'm not sure exactly what is puzzling you, but try these links for verbs that use 'to', not 'for'.




CJ