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Jigneshbharati Posted 5 years ago
Grammar

To dinner Vs for dinner

Tonight, I'm taking my wife to dinner.
I saw the above sentence in a video about the present tense by BBC learning English.
Why does we need "to" and not "for"? Could you please highlight the difference in meaning if we swap the prepositions, for and to?

  

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Jigneshbharati Why do we need "to" and not "for"? The customary preposition is "to" in this sentence. " Let's go out for dinner.

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  • Jigneshbharati Why do we need "to" and not "for"?
  • The customary preposition is "to" in this sentence.
  • " Let's go out for dinner.
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JigneshbharatiWhy do we need "to" and not "for"?

The customary preposition is "to" in this sentence.

In other sentences, it might be "for."

Let's go out for dinner.
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