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What sentence is correct?What is the difference between them?
1.In cold countried people wear thick clothes for keeping warm.
2.In cold countried people wear thick clothes to keep warm.
I think that the second sentence is correct.But I don't understand the difference between them.Gramatically they are both correct for me ((
Nov 25, 2015 5:42 PM
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*"In cold countrieS..."
Aside from that mistake, both sentences are technically correct. Of course, "keeping warm" is a noun (well, gerund) in the first sentence, and "to keep" is a verb in the second sentence. The second sentence sounds much more natural though. It sounds odd to use a noun here.
November 25, 2015
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