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Nalini Rajeev Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

Why is the the second one incorrect?

1) I went to the shop to buy some chocolate.
2) I went to the shop for buying some chocolate.
  

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2) I went to the shop for buying some chocolate. It's not incorrect grammatically, but it sounds very strange to speakers of English. If you want to say why you did something, you use an infinitive.

— CalifJim

  • 2) I went to the shop for buying some chocolate.
  • It's not incorrect grammatically, but it sounds very strange to speakers of English.
  • If you want to say why you did something, you use an infinitive.
  • I went to the shop.
  • Why?
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Nalini Rajeev 1) I went to the shop to buy some chocolate.2) I went to the shop for buying some chocolate.
It's not incorrect grammatically, but it sounds very strange to speakers of English. If you want to say why you did something, you use an infinitive.
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I went to the shop. Why? To buy some chocolate.
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Because it isn't used.

CB
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