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Learn the difference between purpose and purposes as nouns and verbs, with definitions, synonyms and usage examples. Purpose is a singular noun meaning an aim or goal, while purposes is a plural noun meaning different aims or goals.
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BetaBoth 'purpose' and 'purposes' are correct, but they are used in different contexts. 'Purpose' is singular and refers to the reason for which something is done or created. 'Purposes' is the plural form of 'purpose' and is used when referring to multiple reasons or intentions.
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Beta“This spoon can be used for the purpose of stirring ingredients.” “This spoon can be used to stir ingredients.” “For the purposes of” is followed by a noun and the phrase can typically be replaced with “for” followed by the same noun. “This calculator can be used for the purposes of homework.”
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BetaPURPOSE definition: 1. why you do something or why something exists: 2. If you do something on purpose, you do it…. Learn more.
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Betafor the purpose of something I have included this data for the purpose of comparison. with the purpose of doing something This project was launched with the purpose of increasing the number of visitors to the region. purpose for something I could find no practical purpose for this app. The space station serves several purposes.
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Beta'The university is for educational purpose' sounds fairly unnatural to a native speaker. The normal expression uses the plural form; a reasonable example would be '... the use of the internet for educational purposes.' The university is for educational purposes' may have the normal form, but sounds faintly ridiculous and clumsy. –
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BetaIn both cases, we’ve shortened for the purpose of to to and changed the gerund to an infinitive. But there are other possibilities. Even the the three-word phrase in order to is a little less wordy than for the purpose of. The phrase for the purposes of is much the same, though its best one-word replacement is usually for instead of to—for ...
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BetaI always thought it is the former. I would write something like: "For the purpose of this study, consider tomatoes as a kind of fruit" (a hypothetical sentence). However, my teacher corrected "purpose" to "purposes". According to OALD, it should be "purposes": "For the purposes of this study, the three groups have been combined."
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BetaThis is different from the uses I've talked about above, because here we are not always talking about purpose. 'To + infinitive' and 'for + verb-ing' don't have a special meaning when they are part of a verb pattern. It's just that this construction always follows this verb or adjective. These are some examples, but there are many more.
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BetaTo-infinitive Vs. Preposition of Purpose. It is crucial to avoid confusing the preposition “to” with the infinitive marker “to.”. Although both are followed by the base form of the verb, the preposition ‘to’ used to express purpose creates a prepositional phrase functioning as an adverb of purpose.This preposition can be interchanged with “in order to” or “so as to” to ...
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