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TasmanTiger Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

For who could ever learn to love a beast?

Hi, everyone!

Next is the script of movie 'Beauty and Beast':

For who could ever learn to love a beast?

In this sentence, what does 'For' mean?

I'd like to know the grammatical meaning of 'For'!

Thanks in advance,

Gooday!
  

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TasmanTiger For who could ever learn to love a beast? This is casual style. I'd say that "for" = "because," and is used in the manner of a conjunction, connecting this thought to the previous one.

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  • TasmanTiger For who could ever learn to love a beast?
  • This is casual style.
  • I'd say that "for" = "because," and is used in the manner of a conjunction, connecting this thought to the previous one.
  • Look at this poem by HWL: I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For , so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight.
  • I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For who has sight so keen and strong, That it can follow the flight of song?
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TasmanTigerFor who could ever learn to love a beast?
This is casual style.
I'd say that "for" = "because," and is used in the manner of a conjunction,
connecting this thought to the previous one.

Look at this poem by HWL:

I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
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TasmanTigerIn this sentence, what does 'For' mean?
Because, after all, (who could ... ?)

Because, considering all that, (who could ... ?)

I find that "for" in this meaning is not used much in ordinary conversations.

CJ
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