Make for the town?

[Brian]

Test No. incompl/inter-5 "do/make/get/take", question 3

At the moment we are trying to ......... for the town centre.

(a) do
(b) get
(c) make
(d) take

Test No. incompl/inter-5 "do/make/get/take", answer 3

At the moment we are trying to make for the town centre.

Correct answer: (c) make

Your answer was: incorrect
At the moment we are trying to take for the town centre.
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I don't exactly understnad the sentence. Can you explain it for me?

[Torsten]

It means We are about to go downtown/we are going to the city centre/we are heading for the city centre.
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[Flower]

Hi, I normally hear people saying "We are trying to make it to the town" is this sentence correct? why use "for the town" and not "to the town" ?. thanks

[Alan]

Hi flower,

If you say: We are making for the town, this simply means that we are going in a direction towards the town - that is as it were our destination.

If you say: We are trying to make it to the town, this suggests you have problems because there are obstacles in the way - there could be a flood /an earthquake/ an uprising or whatever that makes it difficult to get there. You would say: The climbers eventually made it to the top of Mount Everest at their third attempt.

Alan
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[Jonida]

Hi Torsten
I haven't heard this expression till now! Can you give some more examples of this lasts two "to make for " and "to make it to" it will be very useful to me
Thanks Jona