TO VERB VS FOR VERB-ING

Mechmeera
This is not a typical to+verb vs for+verbing split. This split is usually tested to display purpose of some action.(See below)

here the idiom that is tested is responsible to someone for something. So D is correct. You can say:

A is responsible to B for paying the balance.
or simply

A is responsible for paying the balance.

Therefore D is correct.

In general, when it comes to show the purpose, to + verb is used when someone or some entity is actively involved to do something. for+verbing is used to show the passive purpose or use of something as is used in the scale problem above. When you say a scale for rating a likelihood. Scale is not actively rating the likelihood. Rating the likelihood is just a passive purpose or use of the scale.

Hi Neeti,

I have one query which i want to clarify : to + verb are actually verbs or not ??
In the example,
In three months, biologist Glauco Machado gathered enough information about large numbers of a relatively unstudied order of arachnids to persuade an ant specialist at the university to advise him and to publish his first scientific paper.

I got confused whether gathered is the verb or to persuade is the verb ??
gathered - for me is surely not a verb-ed modifier because Glauco is the one doing the action of gathering info.

Kindly help!!!

in C
I think that
reduction for decreasing
is correct

C is wrong because "reduction of prices" should be "reduction in prices".

Hi Shraddha,

Is the answer to this E?

Regards,
Richa

IMO the answer to this question is E

Here the use of for - verbing is used since the scientists have not specifically discovered with an aim to determine the colonization.

If for+verb-ing cannot be used to denote intent, how do you explain the following sentence as the correct official AC?

astronomers have developed a scale for rating the likelihood that a particular asteroid or comet will
https://gmatclub.com/forum/responding-t ... 80581.html

Thanks

I am confused
I am afraid that
I got a prize for writing the book
is wrong sentence.
because in the sentence , "writing" can not refer to "I". this means "writing" is gerund, a general action.

I got a prize for my writing of the book
is correct.

doing can refer to subject of the sentence only in the special idiom with verbs.

I prohibit him from learning gmat soon

learning here refer to "him", not "I". so we do not have pattern " I get the prize for writing the book".

pls, explain thank.

The Life and Casualty Company hopes that by increasing its environmental fund revenues to $1.2 billion, that it has set aside enough to pay for environmental claims and no longer has to use its profits and capital to pay those claims bit by bit, year by year.


(A) that it has set aside enough to pay for environmental claims and no longer has

(B) enough has been set aside with which environmental claims can be paid and it will have no longer

(C) it has set aside enough for payment of environmental claims and thus no longer having

(D) enough has been set aside to pay for environmental claims, thus no longer having

(E) it has set aside enough to pay for environmental claims and will no longer have

Hello E-GMAT,

The last statement of answer choice "E" saved me. However, I tried asking "purpose." It was clear that the purpose is "to pay for environmental claims." I also asked "set aside enough" "what for." I still got the answer as "payment of environmental claims." However, the sentence doesn't sound proper. Instead, it should be "it has set aside enough for paying environmental claims."

Can you please guide if I'm right in the above thinking? Also, I'm not able to ask the right question. In the above statement, the question should be only "purpose" but if I ask "what for", I still get an answer. Hence, how to rectify?

Thanks.
Sahaj