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Victorycountry Posted 21 years ago
Grammar
Believe in/believe
Hi,
I am just wondering the difference between following examples.
a) I believe in you(or I believe in God)
b) I believe you(or I believe God)
Could anyone help me understand please.
Thanks in advance.
I am just wondering the difference between following examples.
a) I believe in you(or I believe in God)
b) I believe you(or I believe God)
Could anyone help me understand please.
Thanks in advance.
Top answer
a) believe in means, have faith in. b) believe means, accept as true.
- a) believe in means, have faith in.
- b) believe means, accept as true.
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a) believe in means, have faith in.
b) believe means, accept as true.
b) believe means, accept as true.
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If I believe in *** (or whoever) I accept their existance as reality.
If I believe ***, ( or whoever) I accept that they are telling me the truth.
If I believe ***, ( or whoever) I accept that they are telling me the truth.
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Hello
"I believe in you." I have never heard this kind of phrase in my life. I would be very happy if my wife says this to me, but I know she would never do so. Suppose I had been accused of some crime when my mother was still alive, I think, then she (=my mother) would have said to me:"I believe in you". I was really faithful to my mother when I was a child. But I'm wondering if
"I believe in you." I have never heard this kind of phrase in my life. I would be very happy if my wife says this to me, but I know she would never do so. Suppose I had been accused of some crime when my mother was still alive, I think, then she (=my mother) would have said to me:"I believe in you". I was really faithful to my mother when I was a child. But I'm wondering if
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Garbage box? Not a chance, Paco! That is an excellent set of comments both on the grammar point and on your viewpoints. Thank you, as always, for sharing them with us.
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I guess that to say "I believe ***" you must have shared some kind of conversation with him/her at some time?
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Hi, Anne,
You guessed right! To believe someone is to believe what they say!
Jim
You guessed right! To believe someone is to believe what they say!
Jim
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It's interesting that there's a difference between 'believe in' when we speak of 1) ***/fairies/the Loch Ness Monster, and 'believe in' when we speak of 2) you/him/us etc.
I suppose it's simply because belief-in-existence-of has to precede belief-in-qualities-of.
MrP
I suppose it's simply because belief-in-existence-of has to precede belief-in-qualities-of.
MrP
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In your 1), all words have Capitals (oops, not the fairies, but maybe they could have, so they're not mixed with an other kind of fairies), they're controversed entities, whereas
in your 2) they're pronouns, thus references to people we know, made of flesh and blood, whose existence cannot be questioned. Maybe that's why?
If I say "Do you believe in MrP", whom I don't know, and I
in your 2) they're pronouns, thus references to people we know, made of flesh and blood, whose existence cannot be questioned. Maybe that's why?
If I say "Do you believe in MrP", whom I don't know, and I
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I think that's right. As we move from the actual towards the hypothetical, 'believe in' moves from 'belief in qualities of' towards 'belief in existence of':
1. I believe in you (to somebody present): actual, thus re qualities.
2. I believe in Father Christmas: hypothetical, thus re existence.
Somewhere in the middle there's a strangely coloured land of momentary misunder
1. I believe in you (to somebody present): actual, thus re qualities.
2. I believe in Father Christmas: hypothetical, thus re existence.
Somewhere in the middle there's a strangely coloured land of momentary misunder
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