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Navitasan Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

For/reason

.Are these sentences correct with the given meanings:

1-She will not help you for bothering him.
Meaning: Because you bother her, she will not help you.

2-She will not help you for what you have done to her.
Meaning: Because of what you have done to her, she will not help you.

3-You bothered her and she will not help you for that.
Meaning: You bothered her and that is why she will not help you.

Maybe one needs a comma before "for" in 1, 2 and 3?

We do say "He does not see the forest for the trees." but maybe that is an old-fashioned expression that has survived in the language. Sentences 1, 2 and 3 sound strange to me.

Gratefully,
Navi.
  

Top answer

In my dialect of (modern) English, none of those sentences work. )

  • In my dialect of (modern) English, none of those sentences work.
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In my dialect of (modern) English, none of those sentences work.

(In addition, you have a pronoun issue in the first one - him/her.)
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navitasanAre these sentences correct with the given meanings?
Yes, but none are natural.

She will not help you because you bothered her.
She will not help you because of what you have done to her.
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These two conjunctions have almost the same meaning and most often either can be used. However, it's usually safer to use because. The reason for that is that a clause introduced by for ( which we will call "for-clause") has a more restricted use than a clause introduced by because:
A for-clause cannot come before the verb which it explains: Because he was late, he didn't eat breakfas

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