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===Useful English Expressions Explained | Ask Alisha - YouTube=== | ===Useful English Expressions Explained | Ask Alisha - YouTube=== | ||
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==Related Lessons== | |||
* [[Language/English/Grammar/Collocations-with-pay|Collocations with pay]] | |||
* [[Language/English/Grammar/POSSESSIVE-PRONOUNS|POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS]] | |||
* [[Language/English/Grammar/Linking-with-And-But-So|Linking with And But So]] | |||
* [[Language/English/Grammar/Adverbs-of-Time|Adverbs of Time]] | |||
* [[Language/English/Grammar/Mass-noun|Mass noun]] | |||
* [[Language/English/Grammar/Since-and-For|Since and For]] | |||
* [[Language/English/Grammar/RELATIVE-PRONOUNS|RELATIVE PRONOUNS]] | |||
* [[Language/English/Grammar/How-to-Use-Have|How to Use Have]] | |||
* [[Language/English/Grammar/Actual-and-actually|Actual and actually]] | |||
* [[Language/English/Grammar/REFLEXIVE-PRONOUNS|REFLEXIVE PRONOUNS]] |
Revision as of 16:06, 26 February 2023
Ask and ask for
Ask for: ask somebody to give something
Ask without for: ask somebody to tell something
Compare:
- Don't ask me for money, (not don't ask money.)
Don’t ask me my name. (More common than don't ask me for my name.)
- Ask for the menu.
Ask the price.
"Ask" is sometimes used without for when talking about asking for sums of money, especially in connection with buying, selling and renting.
Examples:
They’re asking £700 a month including tax.
‘How much is the car?’ ‘I’m asking sixteen hundred.’
Note also the expressions "ask a lot of somebody", "ask too much of somebody", "ask a favour of somebody" and "ask (for) permission".
Infinitive structures
We can use infinitive structures after ask.
Examples:
ask + infinitive
I asked to go home. (= I asked permission to go home.)
ask + object + infinitive
I asked John to go home. (= I told Jack I would like him to go home.)
ask + for + object + infinitive
I asked for the children to have extra milk.
I asked for the package to be sent to my home address.
Note the difference between these two sentences:
I asked Jack to go home. (I wanted Jack to go home.)
I asked Jack if I could go home. (I wanted to go home myself.)