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Park sang joon Posted 10 years ago
Grammar
He wouldn't have liked her [for a girl]
This novel is set in a Chinese village before World War One.
The protagonist lives with his wife, children, and father, his wife was a maid with very rich family.
The province is suffering from a great famine.
This persistence of the small life in some way won her father's affection, although if she had been round and merry as the others had been at her age he would have been careless of her for a girl. sometimes, looking at her he he whispered softly, "Poor fool?poor little fool?"
[The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck]
I'd like to know why it is "for a girl," not "being a girl."
Thank you in advance for your help.
The protagonist lives with his wife, children, and father, his wife was a maid with very rich family.
The province is suffering from a great famine.
This persistence of the small life in some way won her father's affection, although if she had been round and merry as the others had been at her age he would have been careless of her for a girl. sometimes, looking at her he he whispered softly, "Poor fool?poor little fool?"
[The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck]
I'd like to know why it is "for a girl," not "being a girl."
Thank you in advance for your help.
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I think its grammatical structure is similar to the one used in this sentence: She is very smart for her age. I hope a Veteran will shed some light on this structure, since it is a question of mine, too.
- I think its grammatical structure is similar to the one used in this sentence: She is very smart for her age.
- I hope a Veteran will shed some light on this structure, since it is a question of mine, too.
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I think its grammatical structure is similar to the one used in this sentence: She is very smart for her age.
I hope a Veteran will shed some light on this structure, since it is a question of mine, too.
I hope a Veteran will shed some light on this structure, since it is a question of mine, too.
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park sang joonhe would have been careless of her for a girl.This turn of phrase seems quite strange to me. I can't say that I think a writer nowadays would use it.
he wouldn't have paid much attention to her because that way she would have been a typical girl and gone unnoticed
The underlying assumption was that he never paid much attention
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