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Moon7296 Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary

Want for John to win VS want John to win

I've never seen this pattern with a verb want: want for ~ to ...

But I've found this is one of the usages of the verb want.. Is it?/

If so, what's the difference between We want for John to win and We want John to win?

Just the same meaning and different usage?
  

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We want John to win. We want for John to win doesn't make sense. We want food - We are hungry We want for food - We have no food (therefore it is more of a need rather than a want).

— Dave Phillips

  • We want John to win.
  • We want for John to win doesn't make sense.
  • We want food - We are hungry We want for food - We have no food (therefore it is more of a need rather than a want).
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We want John to win. We want for John to win doesn't make sense.

We want food - We are hungry

We want for food - We have no food (therefore it is more of a need rather than a want).
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"We want for John to win" is a regional, dialect or old-fashioned variant. It is not standard modern English. There is no difference in meaning.
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