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Lucas Scott · Joined: 15 Dec 2005 Posts: 50 Location: Suzhou, China

I'm going through the "Family Album U.S.A" and I have got a question.

The photographer Richard was taking some photos for his photo album. He had taken some pictures of a mother and her son. As they left the mother said: We will be looking for your book."

So, what she said here means that they will look for Richard's album one day, right?
Could I replace the sentence with " We will look forward to your book." ?
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Kristea · Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 8:54 am Post subject:

You could say "We will look forward to your book." Not as common and not exactly the same meaning as "We will look for your book."

My opinion...

"We will look forward to your book" = I would add "reading" or something like that after to.

"We will look for your book" = If I said that, I would probably mean I will look for it in the store and buy it.

Hope that helps - Kristi
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