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Azz Posted 13 years ago
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Make sense of
You have to make sense of all that has happened to your parents.
Is this sentence natural? Is the expression 'make sense of something to someone' a normal expression?
Does it mean you have to explain all that has happened to your parents in a way that will make sense to them?
Does it imply that you do not make proper sense of what has happened yourself and have to make sense of it first?
Many Thanks.
Azz.
Is this sentence natural? Is the expression 'make sense of something to someone' a normal expression?
Does it mean you have to explain all that has happened to your parents in a way that will make sense to them?
Does it imply that you do not make proper sense of what has happened yourself and have to make sense of it first?
Many Thanks.
Azz.
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Is this sentence natural? Yes. azz Is the expression 'make sense of something to someone' a normal expression?
- Is this sentence natural?
- Yes.
- azz Is the expression 'make sense of something to someone' a normal expression?
- The expression is 'make sense of something'.
- It doesn't include 'to someone'.
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azzYou have to make sense of all that has happened to your parents.Is this sentence natural?Yes.
azzIs the expression 'make sense of something to someone' a normal expression?The expression is 'make sense of something'. It doesn't include 'to someone'. You may be parsing the sentence wrong. It's
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You have to make sense of all that has happened to your parents.
Because of the proximity of "happened" to "to your parents", the most natural interpretation is that something has happened to the other person's parents and now he/she has to make sense of it all. The sentence is a little ambiguous though, but that's what came first to my mind.
Because of the proximity of "happened" to "to your parents", the most natural interpretation is that something has happened to the other person's parents and now he/she has to make sense of it all. The sentence is a little ambiguous though, but that's what came first to my mind.
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