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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

Of or for

"The only way of going high is by taking each step further" or "The only way for going high is by taking each step further".
  

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It is not clear that either is a natural way of expressing what you want to say. More context is needed.

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  • It is not clear that either is a natural way of expressing what you want to say.
  • More context is needed.
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It is not clear that either is a natural way of expressing what you want to say. More context is needed.
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Just an example:

"Learning is very important for us. We should learn new things often. The only way of going far with knowledge is by taking each step further."
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Also, this, "the best time of 100 mph" or "the best time for 100 mph".
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And another... "The risk of having some fun" or "the risk for having some fun"
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AnonymousJust an example:"Learning is very important for us. We should learn new things often. The only way of going far with knowledge is by taking each step further."
You can say "The only way of going far ..." or "The only way to go far ...".

"by taking each step further" may not be correct. It may be that you mean "by moving forward with each step
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"The best time for/of 100 mph" would mean, for example, how fast a car can reach 100 mph. Let's a car accelerated 5 times from 0 to 100 mph and the best time was 10 seconds. So we would say, "The best time for/of 0-100 mph was 10 seconds". But I am not sure I should use "of" or "for".

For "the risk of/for having fun", I can write this: "Yesterday, they jumped with parachutes from a buildi
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Anonymous"The best time for/of 100 mph" would mean, for example, how fast a car can reach 100 mph. Let's a car accelerated 5 times from 0 to 100 mph and the best time was 10 seconds. So we would say, "The best time for/of 0-100 mph was 10 seconds". But I am not sure I should use "of" or "for".
"for"
AnonymousFor "the risk of/for ha
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And how about this (added another sentence - listener said):

Speaker said: "Yesterday, they jumped with parachutes from a building. I Know it's risky, but it's the risk of having some fun.".

Listener said: "Yes, Indeed, it was risky to do that, but I believe it was worth the risk of/for having some fun."

Shouldn't it be "for" in my new sentence with the listener or still
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And I have one more, the last one. "This is a great shop. Thousands of people visit this shop every day. This is definitely one of the best places for/of buying food."

"Of" or "for", or maybe "to buy food"?
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AnonymousListener said: "Yes, Indeed, it was risky to do that, but I believe it was worth the risk of/for having some fun."
it was worth the risk to have some fun
AnonymousAnd I have one more, the last one. "This is a great shop. Thousands of people visit this shop every day. This is definitely one of the best places for/o
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