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Park sang joon Posted 11 years ago
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Analyses of the sentences.
The orge Shrek has a crush on Princess Fiona.
Fiona is a beauty in day, but at sunset, she is transformed to an ogre for curse.
Shrek barges in a wedding hall on Fiona's wedding.
Lord Faquaad: Fiona, my love, we're about a kiss away from our happily ever after. Now kiss me.
Princess Fiona: (to herself) By night one way, by another. (to Shrek) I wanted to show you before.
(She turns into an ogre)
Shrek: Well, that explains a lot.
Lord Faquaad: It's disgusting!
I'd like to know if after "our happily," "living" is implied.
And I'd like to know here what "way" means.
Thank you in advance for your help.
Fiona is a beauty in day, but at sunset, she is transformed to an ogre for curse.
Shrek barges in a wedding hall on Fiona's wedding.
Lord Faquaad: Fiona, my love, we're about a kiss away from our happily ever after. Now kiss me.
Princess Fiona: (to herself) By night one way, by another. (to Shrek) I wanted to show you before.
(She turns into an ogre)
Shrek: Well, that explains a lot.
Lord Faquaad: It's disgusting!
I'd like to know if after "our happily," "living" is implied.
And I'd like to know here what "way" means.
Thank you in advance for your help.
Top answer
" He is using the phrase "happily ever after" as a noun and suggesting that they can have their own "happily ever after" once they're married.
- " He is using the phrase "happily ever after" as a noun and suggesting that they can have their own "happily ever after" once they're married.
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Fairytales often and with "and they lived happily ever after."
He is using the phrase "happily ever after" as a noun and suggesting that they can have their own "happily ever after" once they're married.
He is using the phrase "happily ever after" as a noun and suggesting that they can have their own "happily ever after" once they're married.
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park sang joonI'd like to know if after "our happily," "living" is impliedNo, that would not be correct. You could have our living happily ever after, which is close in meaning but not exactly equivalent: our happily ever after has a nominal rather than a verbal interpretation (˜ “our life of unending happiness”).
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By day, her body is one way: that of a beautiful woman.
By night, her body is another way: that of an ogre (though still beautiful in Shrek's mind)
By night, her body is another way: that of an ogre (though still beautiful in Shrek's mind)
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Thank you, BabaraPA and No Name One, for your so very kind answer. 
Fairytales often and with "and they lived happil
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park sang joonFairytales often and with "and they lived happily ever after."I can't understand the structure of the sentence above.There was a typo. The underlined world should be 'end'.
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