2009.12.04

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Today, I met my senior and my best friend's boyfriend with my friends.
Senior and we are all from same university.
We are a third grade at unversity and our major is elementry (school of )education.
When we graduate this university, we'll be an elementry school teacher.
But, we have to pass an examination. so we'll be an examinee next year.
He is already a teacher, he gave good informations to us.
It was very useful for us.
I want to be a good teacher for my children, so I'll study everything for teaching children very hard!!



I have a question!!
Which one does it correct, 'useful for me' or 'useful to me'?
Please ask the anwser.
Then, have a nice weekend :)
Dec 05th 2009 02:08 Yuri

Thank you so much for your correcting my Korean entry. It was very useful. Sorry I'm Japanese and I'm not a native speaker of English. So I can't tell you the slight differences between "useful to me" and "useful for me." Both seem to be OK to me; I think it depends on contexts and situations. If I were you, I would search the both expressions on Google. Let me do so. I'm curious. A native speaker would certainly be able to answer that question better than I can. By the way, "information" may be uncountable.

"Useful for me": Approx 20,000,000 hits
"Useful to me": Approx 30,000,000 hits
Dec 05th 2009 07:55 Michael Suhan

  • Today, I met my senior and my best friend's boyfriend with my friends.
  • Today, I met my senior and my best friend's boyfriend with my friends. Most English speaking people would not know what a senior is because age is not as important to us. I only know what you mean because I lived in Korea. I would say "friend" or "mentor" (depending on who the person is) instead of "senior."

 

  • Senior and we are all from same university.
  • Senior and We are all from the same university. Using the verb "to go" is more common. e.g. "We all go to the same university."

 

  • We are a third grade at unversity and our major is elementry (school of )education.
  • We are a in third grade at university, and our major is elementary (school of ) education. In the US, people would say, "We are juniors in college, and..."

 

  • When we graduate this university, we'll be an elementry school teacher.
  • When we graduate from this university, we'll be an elementary school teachers, but we have to pass an examination, so we'll be examined next year. Do not begin sentence with conjunctions like "and," "but," "so," etc. (It is okay sometimes).

 

  • But, we have to pass an examination.
  • But, we have to pass an examination.

 

  • so we'll be an examinee next year.
  • so we'll be an examinee next year.

 

  • He is already a teacher, he gave good informations to us.
  • He is already a teacher. He gave us good information. Or, "He is already a teacher, and he gave us good information." These are two complete sentences, so you cannot use a comma.

 

  • It was very useful for us.
  • It was very useful for us.

 

  • I want to be a good teacher for my children, so I'll study everything for teaching children very hard!!
  • I want to be a good teacher for my children, so I'll study everything for teaching children very hard!!

 

  • Which one does it correct, 'useful for me' or 'useful to me'?
  • Which one does it is correct: "useful for me" or "useful to me"?You can write, "It was very useful to us," Or, "It was very useful," and both will mean the same thing.

 

  • Please ask the anwser.
  • Please ask tell me the anwser.

 
Good luck with school and your examination in the future. I'm sure you'll make a good teacher if you try.
Arin
  • Korean
  • English, Japanese

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