tailieunhanh - Oxford practice grammar with answers part 18

68 For with the to-infinitive A Introduction Sarah: I'll just ring the office. The boss is waiting for me to ring her back. Mark: / don't think it was a good idea for you to bring that mobile phone on holiday with you, Sarah. We can use for + object + to-infinitive. Here are some more examples. FOR OBJECT TO-INFINITIVE My mother has arranged It's difficult The crowd were impatient It's a nuisance for for for for someone unskilled people the match you to look after her dog next week. to find work these days. to begin. to have to wait. B For expressing purpose We can use this structure. | 68 For with the to-infinitive A Introduction Sarah I ll just ring the office. The boss is waiting for me to ring her back. Mark don t think it was a good idea for you to bring that mobile phone on holiday with you Sarah. We can use for object to-infinitive. Here are some more examples. FOR My mother has arranged for It s difficult for The crowd were impatient for It s a nuisance for OBJECT someone unskilled people the match you TO-INFINITIVE to look after her dog next week. to find work these days. to begin. to have to wait. B For expressing purpose We can use this structure to say why something is done to express purpose . See also Unit 151E. Mark photocopied the figures for the Sales Manager to have a look at. He photocopied the figures so that the Sales Manager could have a look at them. The shop provides baskets for the customers to put their purchases in. I d like to put forward a few suggestions for you to think about. C Too and enough We can use too and enough with this structure. The road is too busy for the children to cross safely. Unfortunately the table was too small for all of us to sit round. Fortunately the table was big enough for all of us to sit round. The guide didn t speak loudly enough for everyone to hear clearly. D For and of FOR We often use for object to-infinitive after an adjective. Harriet was anxious for the party to be a success. Would it be possible for you to move your car please Some of the adjectives we can use with for anxious awful cheap convenient dangerous difficult eager easy exciting expensive friendly good happy horrible impatient important interesting marvellous necessary nice normal polite possible ready safe sensible silly stupid terrible useful willing wonderful wrong Compare these two sentences. It was good for you to come jogging. It was good for your health. OF After an adjective saying how someone behaves we use of object to-infinitive. It s kind of Melanie to put you up for the night. Melanie is kind. It was clever