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Osama91 Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

for him/her to+verb

Hi, will you please provide me with some more examples on when and how to correctly refer to a certain person while speaking using for+pronoun, for example, For him to go Spain is a good idea. Is this sentence correct by the way?

please write as much examples as you can using different pronouns and tenses.
PS, once, i read a sentence in which "to" was used instead of "for", for example, To them to+verb. Are they interchangeable? Is this form of writing kind of formal?

Thank you.
  

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osama91 For him to go Spain is a good idea. Is this sentence correct by the way? Yes, but the more common way to express this is to use a "dummy it" as a subject.

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  • osama91 For him to go Spain is a good idea.
  • Is this sentence correct by the way?
  • Yes, but the more common way to express this is to use a "dummy it" as a subject.
  • Your version is more formal.
  • It is a good idea for him to go to Spain.
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osama91For him to go Spain is a good idea. Is this sentence correct by the way?
Yes, but the more common way to express this is to use a "dummy it" as a subject. Your version is more formal.
It is a good idea for him to go to Spain.

It would (will) be good for her to stop smoking.
It was time for us to go, so we left.
That password is for
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osama91once, i read a sentence in which "to" was used instead of "for", for example, To them to+verb. Are they interchangeable? Is this form of writing kind of formal?
I can't imagine what you read that would have said this. "to" isn't used instead of "for" in a FOR ... TO ... clause, and it's not a mark of formal writing, or of any kind of writing that I kno
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Thank you, CJ, this is very helpful.

Osama
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