스크랩 [공통정보] Don't get bogged down in grammar.

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Don't get bogged down in grammar.

Without knowing basic grammar, you can't read and write in English.
But don't get bogged down in it.

You have to know what phrases or words are idiomatic (used everyday by native speakers).

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"김은하" <kjdng@hanmir.com">kjdng@hanmir.com>

Hello. I got a question.
There are two sentences: "I want her to go to the party." and "I want for
her to go to the party." I think there is no difference between them, but
why 'for her' is used in the second sentence? Is there any different meaning
between them?

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If you say, "I got a question.", most of native speakers will look their nose down at you and won't bother to answer your question. You ought to say, "I've got or have got a question."

The second example my be grammatically correct, but it is not idiomatic.
Although I have occasionally seen such usage in English language fictions,
it is not idiomatic or standard English.

So. don't bogged down in grammar and just learn by heart the idiomatic usage of
"want" as in "to want someone to do something".