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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

To you/for you

Okay, I really hope somebody can help me shine some light on this.

In these two sentences:

1. It is important for you to exercise.
2. It is important to you to excercise.

Are both "for you"/"to you" grammatically correct? And if they are - is there a difference of meaning between the two sentences.

My argument would be that they are both grammatically correct. However, I would claim that sentences 1 means that it is important for people in general to exercise, while sentence 2 means that it is personally important to whoever "you" is to exercise.

Any feedback would be helpful.
  

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Important is one of those adjectives that are usually followed by for. I can detect no real difference in meaning. To seems incorrect to me.

— Cool Breeze

  • Important is one of those adjectives that are usually followed by for.
  • I can detect no real difference in meaning.
  • To seems incorrect to me.
  • CB
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Important is one of those adjectives that are usually followed by for. I can detect no real difference in meaning. To seems incorrect to me.

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I woudn't say that it's incorrect but doesn't sound natural to me. If you know that someone really loves to exercise and want to clearly express that then why not just say

Exercise is (really) important to you, isn't it.
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IvanhrExercise is (really) important to you, isn't it.
Yes, right, Ivanhr! I was a little hasty.

CB
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