Hi! When you use the word "respect" as a verb, it takes no preposition. Examples: 1. You should respect your parents. 2. I don't respect people who only care about money. But when you use it as a noun, you need the preposition "for". Let's look at the same sentences: 1. You should have respect for your parents. 2. I don't have any respect for people who only care about money. I've never heard it take the preposition "to", though!

Hi Konul, There are various ways you can use respect. Common examples are: GIVE respect TO [object] HAVE respect FOR [object] respect [object] These are the most common three forms of respect. If you change the form of respct to respectING or RespectS or respectFUL etc etc, of course things get more complicated. But for now, for the pure form of RESPECT, I would say keep the above three in mind. What does [object] mean? Object can be whatever you are talking about, whether it be a person, culture, a physical object or thing. Just make sure you add the correct article when you choose you object. Hope this helps!

Agreed with Soheil and Sarah. just would like to add that one can also "pay one's respects to someone", in the sense that they send their greetings to someone. For example, "Pay my respects to your grandmother". It is a bit old-fashioned though :)

Hi Konul, As you read from the previous answers to your questions, there are many different ways to use 'respect'. In the sentence you wrote, you could say: "We must 'have' respect 'for' the old.".