How To Use the Preposition "To" | Learn English Grammar for Beginners

Hi everybody, my name is Alicia. In this video, I'm going to look at how to use the preposition to. Let's get started. Okay.

First, I want to talk about using the preposition to to express a So, we use to when expressing the end point or the destination of a movement. So, we can use this form of to when we talk about our travel experiences or just when we are

talking about moving inside a room, moving inside our community, and so on. So, let's take a look at how we use to in this situation. First, she went to the bank.

Here, to is before the destination, in this case, the bank. She went to the bank. The bank is the destination or the end point of her movement.

We use this with the past tense verb. Next example is they drove to Mexico. They drove to Mexico. In this case, the destination or the end point is a country, Mexico.

We put to before the end point here to mark this. Again, we have a movement verb in this sentence. So, here we have drove, the past tense of drive. Our first example was went, the past tense of go.

Let's look at one more example of this. Let's move this meeting to a coffee shop. Let's move this meeting to a coffee shop. So, this is an expression we can use if we want to stop having a meeting somewhere and go somewhere

else to continue talking. Here, we have the destination or the desired, in this case, end point, a coffee shop here. So, this person is making a suggestion. This is not a past tense example, but they're saying,

"Let's move to this destination." So, they're talking about a destination in the future. So, we can use to before a specific end point for our movement. Please keep in mind you cannot use the word there

in this case. Sometimes I see learners say, I want to go to there or I lived to there or I went to there. So we cannot use there in this position because there

is not a specific end point. We always use a specific location at the end of this two phrase, okay? So make sure you mark those end points with two. Okay, let's continue to the second one.

Number two is for recipients, recipients. So that means we use two to mark the person receiving something. So in a give and receive situation, when you want to express the person who takes the thing or who

receives the thing, you can mark that person with two. Let's look at some examples. Okay, first one. Please send this file to the client. Please send this file to the client.

In this case, the client is the person or the group that is receiving the file. Please send this file to the client. If it helps you, you can think of this person as the destination for something.

It has kind of the same feel. That's the end point or the end person for the item. So please send this file to the client. Next one.

I gave my sweater to my mother. I gave my sweater to my mother. Again, my mother is the recipient of this object, my sweater. I gave my sweater to my mother.