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HSS Posted 16 years ago
Grammar
For
Hi
(1) Is 'for' used correctly in this? I don't think the statements after it does not explain the clause before it. I don't think this 'for' is needed here. Do you?
(2) What does 'this' refer to?
(Background information: she is an Alzheimer patient)
She is right about my evasiveness. On days like these, when only her memory is gone, I am vague in my answers because I've hurt my wife unintentionally with careless slips of my tongue many times these past few years, and I am determined not to let it happen again. So I limit myself and answer only what is asked, sometimes not too well, and I volunteer nothing.
This is a split decision, both good and bad, but necessary, for with knowledge comes pain. To limit the pain I limit my answers. There are days she never learns of her children or that we are married. I am sorry for this, but I will not change.
Does this make me dishonest? Perhaps, but I have seen her crushed by the waterfall of information that is her life. Could I look myself in the mirror without red eyes and quivering jaw and know I have forgotten all that was important to me? I could not and neither can she, for when this odyssey began, this is how I began. Her life, her marriage, her children. Her friends and her work. Questions and answers in the game show format of This Is Your Life.
The days were hand on both of us. I was an encyclopedia, an object without feeling, of the whos, whats and wheres in her life, when in reality it is the whys, the things I did not know and could not answer, that make it all worthwhile. ...
('The Notebook' by Nicholas Sparks)
(1) Is 'for' used correctly in this? I don't think the statements after it does not explain the clause before it. I don't think this 'for' is needed here. Do you?
(2) What does 'this' refer to?
(Background information: she is an Alzheimer patient)
She is right about my evasiveness. On days like these, when only her memory is gone, I am vague in my answers because I've hurt my wife unintentionally with careless slips of my tongue many times these past few years, and I am determined not to let it happen again. So I limit myself and answer only what is asked, sometimes not too well, and I volunteer nothing.
This is a split decision, both good and bad, but necessary, for with knowledge comes pain. To limit the pain I limit my answers. There are days she never learns of her children or that we are married. I am sorry for this, but I will not change.
Does this make me dishonest? Perhaps, but I have seen her crushed by the waterfall of information that is her life. Could I look myself in the mirror without red eyes and quivering jaw and know I have forgotten all that was important to me? I could not and neither can she, for when this odyssey began, this is how I began. Her life, her marriage, her children. Her friends and her work. Questions and answers in the game show format of This Is Your Life.
The days were hand on both of us. I was an encyclopedia, an object without feeling, of the whos, whats and wheres in her life, when in reality it is the whys, the things I did not know and could not answer, that make it all worthwhile. ...
('The Notebook' by Nicholas Sparks)
Top answer
for = because this = how he has handled the situation since its inception
- for = because this = how he has handled the situation since its inception
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for = because
this = how he has handled the situation since its inception
this = how he has handled the situation since its inception
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Could anybody please tell me, in simple English, what is the reason and what is the result of it with regard to this 'for'?
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I just noticed a typo in the last paragraph in my first post.
The days were hand on both of us. >>> The days were hard on both of us.
The days were hand on both of us. >>> The days were hard on both of us.
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