He cries out for/to someone to wake him up,

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Angliholic

#460871 Sun, 06 Jan 08 01:48 AM

He cries out for/to someone to wake him up, but no one can hear him.

Are for and to interchangeable in the above? If not, why not? Thanks.

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Hoa Thai

#460900 Sun, 06 Jan 08 03:24 AM

'Cries out to John" - John is within sight.
'Cries out for John" carries 'searching for' connotation. John is not within sight.

Take care,
Hoa Thai

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Grammar Geek

#460902 Sun, 06 Jan 08 03:30 AM

But if he is asleep, how can he call out to people?

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Barbara, who answers in American English.

Angliholic

#460914 Sun, 06 Jan 08 03:58 AM

Hoa Thai wrote:
'Cries out to John" - John is within sight.
'Cries out for John" carries 'searching for' connotation. John is not within sight.

Take care,
Hoa Thai

Thanks, Hoa.

Your explanation sounds very reasonable!

Angliholic

#460915 Sun, 06 Jan 08 03:59 AM

Grammar Geek wrote:

But if he is asleep, how can he call out to people?

Thanks, GG.

Actually, he is not asleep but dead. It's his ghost or soul that is speaking.

Angliholic

Grammar

Grammar Geek

#460929 Sun, 06 Jan 08 05:10 AM

Ah, well, that explains why they can't hear him then, doesn't it.

Grammar Geek

Hoa Thai

#460933 Sun, 06 Jan 08 05:19 AM

Angliholic wrote:
Grammar Geek wrote:

But if he is asleep, how can he call out to people?

Thanks, GG.

Actually, he is not asleep but dead. It's his ghost or soul that is speaking.

Hi Angliholic,

Do you believe in ghost? I have never seen one, but I am easily scared about stories of unknown worlds. Smile [:)]

Anyway, I could be in this dream: I saw myself sleeping under a palm tree on a beach. As the night decented, I could not wake up and the tide kept rising. I (the one who saw myself sleeping) cried out for my mother to wake me up.

Hoa Thai

Hoa Thai

Grammar

Angliholic

#460974 Sun, 06 Jan 08 07:27 AM

Hoa Thai wrote:
Angliholic wrote:
Grammar Geek wrote:

But if he is asleep, how can he call out to people?

Thanks, GG.

Actually, he is not asleep but dead. It's his ghost or soul that is speaking.

Hi Angliholic,

Do you believe in ghost? I have never seen one, but I am easily scared about stories of unknown worlds.

Anyway, I could be in this dream: I saw myself sleeping under a palm tree on a beach. As the night decented, I could not wake up and the tide kept rising. I (the one who saw myself sleeping) cried out for my mother to wake me up.

Hoa Thai

Hi, Hoa.

NOw I believe in God and ghosts and lots of things that can't be seen or proved by scientists.

I also believe in life after life, and we are a family.

We never really leave this world after we pass away; it's only the body that dies. We'll appear again in another form of life.

Angliholic

Grammar