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Vladv Posted 9 years ago
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Grinning his way through
"Enrique Peña Nieto treated the humiliation like a meteorological disturbance. Relations with the United States would soon return to normal, if only he grinned his way through the painful episode." Could you please explain the meaning of the last sentence starting from " if only he...."
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" only if he smiled and quietly accepted the unpleasant experience
- " only if he smiled and quietly accepted the unpleasant experience
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Vladv if only he grinned his way through the painful episode." Could you please explain the meaning of the last sentence starting from " if only he...."
only if he smiled and quietly accepted the unpleasant experience
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Vladvif only he grinned his way through the painful episode.
"Certain verbs can take a noun phrase of the form X's way as object when it is followed by a prepositional phrase describing a resulting state or location."
— Beth Levin
This is called an "X's way construction".
They shopped their way around New York.
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