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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar
The idea is for the school to...(an use of FOR)
Hello!
I have come across the following sentence:
"The idea is for the school to buy furniture for the offices rather than the classrooms"
I have to admit that its structure is somewhat difficult to understand for me. I think the idea comes from another subject other than the school; am I right?. If so, I can´t avoid forming my own structure:
"The idea is that the school buys furniture for...."
Is my sentence correct and has the same meaning than the original one?. Cold you provide me, please, with a new structure with the same meaning than the first one?.
Thank you very much in advance, I hope I have been able to express myself correctly.
forlearning.
I have come across the following sentence:
"The idea is for the school to buy furniture for the offices rather than the classrooms"
I have to admit that its structure is somewhat difficult to understand for me. I think the idea comes from another subject other than the school; am I right?. If so, I can´t avoid forming my own structure:
"The idea is that the school buys furniture for...."
Is my sentence correct and has the same meaning than the original one?. Cold you provide me, please, with a new structure with the same meaning than the first one?.
Thank you very much in advance, I hope I have been able to express myself correctly.
forlearning.
Top answer
" You are on the right track. It's a FOR ... TO ...
- " You are on the right track.
- It's a FOR ...
- TO ...
- clause.
- The idea is FOR the school TO buy furniture for the offices rather than (for) the classrooms.
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for learning"The idea is that the school buys furniture for.."You are on the right track. It's a FOR ... TO ... clause.
The idea is
FOR the school TO buy furniture
for the offices
rather than (for) the classrooms.
The equivalent THAT clause uses the subjun
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Compare:
It's important for you to be on time.
= It's important that you be on time.
CJ
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hi!
So, both sentences have the same meaning... The second one, as I told you, sounds more natural to me, maybe because its structure is more similar than that of my native language.
Could it be,
It's important for you to be on time.
= It's important that you be on time.
CJ
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hi!
So, both sentences have the same meaning... The second one, as I told you, sounds more natural to me, maybe because its structure is more similar than that of my native language.
Could it be,
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I am not an expert at the history of languages, but I suspect that the for ... to ...clause structure is quite old. It has probably been part of English for hundreds of years, long before the United States even existed, so I don't think it's more modern even though it may be novel to you personally. It is certainly not confined to any particular region or country.
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Gosh, it's been six months! 
How is it going? Are you starting to recognize and use those FOR ... TO ... clauses more ea
How is it going? Are you starting to recognize and use those FOR ... TO ... clauses more ea
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Hehe, hello.
Yes, I have noticed now that I hadn´t thank you; I thought I had:)
Yes, I am getting somewhat familiar with those clauses. I could even say I like them.
And as to the subjunctive one, I am trying to assimilate that we don´t use the "s" with the third person at the ending of the verb, as in: "It is good that he take care of her ". Or I guess, also in:" I re
Yes, I have noticed now that I hadn´t thank you; I thought I had:)
Yes, I am getting somewhat familiar with those clauses. I could even say I like them.
And as to the subjunctive one, I am trying to assimilate that we don´t use the "s" with the third person at the ending of the verb, as in: "It is good that he take care of her ". Or I guess, also in:" I re
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for learningI am trying to assimilate that we don´t use the "s" with the third person at the ending of the verbI sensed, from remarks you made earlier in this thread, that your language uses subjunctives much more than English does, so this should be a piece of cake for you! All we have is a few cases: recommend that, demand that, insist that, urge that, et
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