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Vincent Teo Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Threw a birthday party to / for

Can I say,

John's father threw a birthday party to / for him.
  

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Hi ,, In this sentence ,, I think that Both prepositions are Correct ..... but here " Don't listen for him " is incorrect .....

  • Hi ,, In this sentence ,, I think that Both prepositions are Correct .....
  • but here " Don't listen for him " is incorrect .....
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Hi ,,

In this sentence ,, I think that Both prepositions are Correct .....

but here " Don't listen for him " is incorrect .....
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John's father threw a birthday party for him.

You cannot use 'to' here.
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Thanks KateJS ,, For making it clear ...

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