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Uses of care

Uses of the word care

I take care about my cat.

Write three sentences on a piece of paper or in a new document in your computer,

one using care for, one using care about, one using care of.

Keep these examples. You will use them again later.

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"care about meaning"

Read the definitions and look for the way to say care about and the way to say take care of.

Revision

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Go to the sentences you saved from the Uses of the word care page.

Check your three sentences, the one using care for, the one using care about, and the one using care of.

Revise your sentences if you need to from what your learned from searching Google.

Send your sentences to your instructor to check if each is correct. Because:

He takes care of the lessons that will help his students learn.
He cares for the progress of all his students.
He cares about you. (Yikes?!)

Correct the example

I take care about my cat.

Correct this sentence (above). It first appeared on the Uses of the word care page.

It is not correct. Forget about using it, forever.

Send your corrections also to your instructor to check.

Note that you cannot correct the sentence with only one sentence.

Yikes

Why shock and surprise?

Yikes--an expression of shock and surprise about something said or done.

I care about you = I wish you well always (like a close friend, possibly very close (yikes)).

I care for you = I more than care about you (sincere expression of intimacy--Yikes, Yikes!).

Of course, in English context always matters. The situation and the way these sentences are said can make a big difference, which will be the difference between understanding and misunderstanding..

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