Prepositional Phrases with FOR

Prepositional

A prepositional phrase is a group of words consisting of a preposition, its object, and any words that modify the object. Most of the time, a prepositional phrase modifies a verb or a noun. These two kinds of prepositional phrases are called adverbial phrases and adjectival phrases, respectively.

Prepositions are words that begin with prepositional phrases.

Prepositional Phrases with FOR

For a change	For a good cause
For a good reason	For a holiday
For a moment	For a reason
For a visit	For a walk
For a while	For ages
For breakfast	For certain
For dinner	For ever
For example	For experience
For fear of	For fun
For good	For granted
For hire	For instance
For lack of	For life
For love	For luck
For lunch	For my
For nothing	For once
For real	For safekeeping
For sale	For short
For sure	For the benefit (of)
For the good of	For the moment
For the rest of	For the sake of
For the time being	For want of

Prepositional Phrase Examples with FOR

The major recommendation is for a change in the law.

For real Indian food, just follow these recipes.

Fiction is a poor surrogate for real experience.

I know for sure that I won’t be able to go to the party.

There’s two spoonsful of sugar, and one for luck.

Good for good every man can do, good for bad only a noble man can do.

Although he had only entered the contest for fun, he won first prize.

Great trees are good for nothing but shade.

The children plumped for a holiday by the sea.

I have searched my mind for a reason, but can’t find one.

Drop over to our house for a visit sometime.

There is a similar word in many languages, for example in French and Italian.

Let’s step out for a walk, shall we?

The dinner party conversation faltered for a moment.

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PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES WITH FOR MEANING AND EXAMPLES

Prepositional phrase	Meaning	Example
For ages	For a long time	I haven’t been downtown for ages!
For a change	To do something different	Let’s go hiking for a change.
For instance	To give an example	John works late. For instance, yesterday he left the office at 9 pm.
For nothing	In vain	The trains are on strike. I walked to the station for nothing!
For nothing	At no cost	He gave me several books and dictionaries for nothing!
For the sake of	For the purpose of; in the interest of	They stayed together for the sake of their children.
For short	As a short form	William is his name, but he’s called Bill for short.
For now	Until a later time	That’s all the information we have for now.
For sale/rent/hire	Something offered to people to buy/rent/hire …	That red car is for sale.
For better or worse	Whatever the consequences	Anyway, I accepted the job, for better or worse.
For want of	Because of a lack of	For want of a better place, we set up camp in a field.
For a while	For a period of time	I’d like to stop working and travel for a while.