The phrase "a particular thing to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when specifying a certain item or concept that is relevant to the context of the discussion.
Example: "I need to focus on a particular thing to improve my productivity at work."
Alternatives: "a specific item to" or "a certain aspect to".
Q: On the video it looked like you might have said a particular thing to him, a slur or something.
Having lots of children means a particular thing to some people, she says, and "you get comments".
"In Los Angeles you tend to go to a particular place to do a particular thing, to another to do another thing, and finally a long way back to your home, and you've done 100 miles in the day," he complained in the third talk.
In practice, how do we judge similarity, so as to distinguish whether a particular thing belongs to a kind?
Everything arrived in good order, and that particular "thing to do" was crossed off her list.
What makes a particular thing belong to one kind rather than another?
Diana Vishneva, a principal dancer at the Kirov Ballet and at American Ballet Theatre, once told Francis Mason, of Ballet Review, that in any ballet she always tried to find "a particular thing that allows me to know what I am doing with the role, not just to do it beautifully".
The field of consciousness is the field in which these different categories are unified in the perception and judgment of the qualities of a particular thing in relation to other particular things and their qualities.
These lessons focused pupils' attention on a particular thing and encouraged them to use all of their senses to explore it and urged them to use precise words to describe it.
Simple supposition appears to have been a vestige of early terminist logic,[14] whose realist practitioners needed to distinguish between referring to a universal thing and referring to a particular thing.
These are: humans act toward things based on the meanings they ascribe to those things: meaning given to a particular thing (event, person, act) is a result of social interaction; and meanings are created, evaluated, and modified via an interpretative process particular to the person and are used by individuals in dealing with their encounters.
