Learn English – ‘For’ versus ‘toward’

word-choice

Are these sentences both grammatical ?

  • "This is a big step towards the project's completion."
  • "This is a big step for the project's completion."

If so, how do we decide between the first and the second one?

Best Answer

Because we're thinking of the project's completion as a distant place, saying towards makes sense, and for does not.

If you didn't want to use towards, you could change "the project's completion" to something more tangible.

This is a big step for a part of the project.

Or you could try something that acts on the progressiveness of the goal

This will speed the project's completion.

This will hurry the project's completion.

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