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We use it to explain why we do something.
To explain why we do something using a noun, we use for.
We often use this phrase to talk about the reasons why we do something.
To explain why we do something is an infinitive of purpose.
When a full infinitive is used at the end of a sentence to explain why we do something, it is called the infinitive of purpose.
He watches archive films from half a century earlier and asks himself why we didn't do something about climate change before it was too late.
"One has to ask, Why are we doing something which supporters say changes nothing when we know it hurts members of our community?" said the executive, Nancy J. Nussbaum.
"Why would we do something just utilitarian?" she said.
If we are organisms trying to survive, why would we do something that could hurt our ability to do so?
Sometimes, our excuses and fears are the reason why we don't do something that we really want to do.
"Then I thought, why don't we do something?" he said.
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