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Kis7385 Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

For verb-ing / to verb

can i say

I bought the book for studying

I bought the book for studying English.

if it's ok, what's the difference between 'to verb form' and above.

I bought the book to study

I bought the book to study English.
  

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You can use: I bought the book to study English. I guess you were confuse by the use of preposition since it will affect your sentence structure.

— Xavierry

  • You can use: I bought the book to study English.
  • I guess you were confuse by the use of preposition since it will affect your sentence structure.
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You can use:

I bought the book to study English.

I guess you were confuse by the use of preposition since it will affect your sentence structure.
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These are not very useful, though they are not wrong.

I bought the book for studying.
I bought the book for studying English.

These are better.

I bought the book to study.

I bought the book to study English.

When in doubt about which form to use to express the purpose for doing something, choose the infinitive (the second pattern). In some context
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Hi CJ, you said "when in doubt about which form to use to express the purpose for doing something, choose the infinitive.
Can you explain then why you used for doing above sentence?
thanks
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The noun purpose takes the "for -ing" construction, not the infinitive.

CJ
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