Hi, fellas! How are you today? Did you get to see the Grammy award ceremony? Did your favourites win?
During an award acceptance speech/winning speech, often the winner says something that goes, “I dedicate this award ____ everyone who has supported me.”
What is the correct preposition to fill the blank, fellas? We have 2 options, ‘to’ and ‘for.’
Yes, the answer is ‘to.’
‘to dedicate something to something/someone’ is a phrase that means to reserve something for a particular purpose regarding something else or someone.
E.g.:
“Mom, I dedicated this song to you.”
“She dedicated her life to being a nurse.”
I understand that this can be confusing to us Indonesian, because the direct translation for both ‘to’ and ‘for’ is ‘untuk.’ Sometimes, we might use ‘for’ instead of the correct word, ‘to.’
However, as it is a phrase, we should always try to remember the correct form, ‘to dedicate ____ to.’
Compiled by @alicesaraswati for @EnglishTips4U on Monday, 28 January 2020.
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