Speak Better English with Harry | Episode 182

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Hi there. This is Harry. And welcome to my podcast, where I tried to help you to improve your English by helping you find your way through idioms, idiomatic expressions, Fraser verbs on general grammar rules so that you can have better on more professional English conversation. So what do I have for you in this podcast? Well, we're going to look at now is the difference of the use of four on DH 24 on two. So how do we use them? In what way do we use them? So we're using these and this particular podcast to express a purpose. Okay, So how do we use four or two when we want to express a purpose? So for our two, usually with the infinitive foran individual purpose gay, so for is commonly used with now NHS to express a particular individual purpose. Let me give you an example. I popped into the supermarket for some apples on the way home. Okay. I popped. Meaning I called into the supermarket for some apples on the way home. That was my purpose to buy the apples. So it's not. I popped into the supermarket for buying some apples. It's I popped into the supermarket for some apples. On the way home, I stopped by at his office for a chat about a marketing strategy. I stopped by at his office for a chat about our marketing strategy. Not I stopped by at his office for having a chat about marketing. Okay, I stopped by at his office. I called into his office for a chat for conversation, about our marketing strategy for a chat in case that these are express individual purposes. And therefore we're using four Okay for those express individual purposes, for with the noun I popped into the supermarket for some apples. Now I stopped at his office for a chat on Now. Okay, I decided I would save up for a new computer. Okay, that was my my purpose. My individual purpose was to buy a new apple Mac. So I decided I would save up for a new computer, and it's not. I decided I would save up for buying a new computer. Okay, so I decided I would save up for a new computer. Not I decided I would save up for buying a new computer. I wanted a new computer, so I decided I would save up for a new computer. And that's the now. So if we want to express an individual purpose with verb, then we used to with the infinitive. So the individual purpose with a noun we've used for now we're using the express individual purpose with a verb on. We're using two plus the infinitive. So let me give you an example of that. I stopped by at the supermarket to buy some apples on the way home. Okay, here. So we're using the verb to buy. Okay. I stopped by at the supermarket to buy some apples on the way home to buy infinitive verb to buy some apples. Okay. I popped into his office to have a chat about a marketing policy. I popped into his office to have a chat, OK? To have the verb a chat about a marketing policy. Finally, I decided to save up to buy that new computer. I decided to save up to buy a new computer. Okay, so the sentences are exactly the same. The meaning is exactly the same. But in the first examples were using four with now. PNs. Okay, fight for I stopped to the supermarket for some apples. I stopped by his office for a chat. I decided would save up for a new computer for a plus now and in the second set of examples were using to the infinitive. Okay. I stopped at the supermarket to buy some apples. I popped into the office to have a chat on it. Decided to save up for a new computer. I decided to save up. Okay, so when we want to use four plus a verb for a particular purpose, we can use it in the following way. Schools are for educating Children. Okay, so this is the purpose schools are for educating. Okay, So the verb crossed the I n g schools are for educating Children, not for entertaining them. Get Schools are for educating Children, not for entertaining them. Schools are for learning. Life is for living, for learning for living. The kitchen knife is especially useful for slicing vegetables. Slice scene for slicing. Veg will see that for plus the verb plus the i n g. Okay. Schools are for educating, not for for entertaining. Schools offer learning Life is for living. Kitchen knife is useful for slicing. Okay, so all of those are examples off four plus the verb plus the i N G. Now everyone to use in a question. We can say something like, What's this for? What's this for? Oh, it's for opening oysters. Okay, What's this for? Oh, it's for opening oysters. What's this 50 euro note for? Oh, it's for buying food at the weekend. Okay, What's this for? What's this 50 euro note for Okay, now, when the subject of the sentence is a person rather than the things on the previous examples, we've been using things. But when the subject of the sentences a person rather than the thing, then we used to plus the infinitive, for example. I use this small knife to slice vegetables with. So here it's me. I use this small knife to slice beds vegetables with Not this kitchen knife is useful for slicing. So this kitchen knife so it's a thing. This kitchen knife is useful for slicing vegetables when I make me the up the subject, and I use this small knife to sly pes vegetables with I use this gadget too open shellfish with. So I used this gadget to Yeah, this gadget is used for opening game, so you can see the difference there between the subject I and then when it is just a thing. And we can also use in order to do something so as to do something. Okay. I bought this laptop in order to work at home. I bought this lot laptop so as to be able to work from home. Okay. All right. So different uses off four on two. And I've given you the examples there, so I might need to listen to a couple of times just to get the understanding. But these are very classic uses off four on two when we want to express particular purpose. Okay, well, as always, Thanks for listening on DH. If you want to contact me, you can do so on www dark English lesson via Skype. Come. Very happy to hear from you. 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