Which option is most concise while preserving meaning: 'He used a flashlight to see better.'?

• A. He used a flashlight to see better.
• B. He used a flashlight in order to see better.
• C. He used a flashlight for seeing better.
• D. He used a flashlight to see better, in order to.

Answer: (D)

Expressing purpose in the simplest way keeps the meaning intact and the sentence tight. The clean infinitive form (to see better) is direct and avoids extra words that don’t add new information. Adding in order to just lengthens the sentence without changing what it means, and using for seeing tends to feel less natural in this context. The result is awkward when the sentence includes a trailing in order to, which disrupts clarity. So the concise, meaning-preserving choice uses the straightforward to see better construction.