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Warrener Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

be worth it?

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00I was especially 01b00drawn to02b00 tales of true love long denied but ultimately rewarded. I completely bought into the idea that for every princess there is a prince out there somewhere ... and if you had to kiss a few frogs along the way to find him, well, 01b00then the warts were worth it02b00.02br
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00"01b00then the warts were worth it02b00"02br
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00is it correct grammarly?02br
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00BTW, what is "be drawn to"?02br
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0"Worth+noun/gerund" is a special adjectival phrase to mean "valuable to do the activity expressed by the noun or gerund" "Worth it" means "valuable enough to make such a effort or endure such a pain". It is commonly used in a sentence like "it is worth it". What I could not get here is "the warts".

— Paco2004

  • 0"Worth+noun/gerund" is a special adjectival phrase to mean "valuable to do the activity expressed by the noun or gerund" "Worth it" means "valuable enough to make such a effort or endure such a pain".
  • It is commonly used in a sentence like "it is worth it".
  • What I could not get here is "the warts".
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0"Worth+noun/gerund" is a special adjectival phrase to mean "valuable to do the activity expressed by the noun or gerund" "Worth it" means "valuable enough to make such a effort or endure such a pain". It is commonly used in a sentence like "it is worth it". What I could not get here is "the warts". Does "the warts" stand for the frogs she kissed?02br
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0 So this sentence can be interpreted as:02br
00Then the warts(frogs) were valuable to kiss them? 0-
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1b00Paco02b00: I think the warts refer to some reaction of your skin if you kiss frogs.02br
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01b00Warrener02b00: I think I'd reverse it and say "it was valuable to me to kiss the frogs".0-
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0 Hello Pieanne02br
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00I see! So I guess this sentence implies "What looks allergic to you could often be what you are wanting". Right?02br
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0 drawn to means attracted to, interested in.02br
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00 Some traditional folk tales relate incidents in which a woman kisses a frog, and the frog turns into a prince. The related modern saying is that a woman has to kiss a lot of frogs to find a prince, that is, has to put up with a lot of undesirable men in her search for the perfect man.02br
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01cite10CalifJim12cite10Secondly, it is an old belief that if you touch a frog you'll get warts. Of course, we now know that they are caused by a virus.12blockquote
10 I see! Thank you, CJ. I didn't know it, because we Japanese have not such an old belief. Now I got relieved from the puzzle about the "warts". 02br
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0Mr. Paco.02br
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00Can I replace the words like this and not create any changes in meaning?02br
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00Your sentence: 01i00valuable enough to make 01u00such an effort02u00 or endure 01u00such a pain02u00.02i02br
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00Changed sentence: 01i00valuable enough
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0 Hello Believer02br
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00As you know well, "effort" and "pain" both can be uncountable as well as countable. I coordinated "make such an effort" and "endure such a pain" for the reason of parallelism. But actually, it would be better to have written "make such an effort or endure such pain". "Make an effort" or "make efforts" is a kind of idiomatic phrase and "make effort"
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0 Thank you CJ and all other dudes. Now I understand the phrase "be worth it". 0-
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