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Totioh1 Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

meaning???

And then finally, I let go of the nozzle, y'know, and then I dropped the hose, and she disappeared. And so I went back inside, and I tell my parents, y'know. And they, uh, sit me down give me big rap on how when people die you never see them again, and how I'd imagined it. But, I knew what I'd seen. - dialogue of the movie, before sunrise - i want to know exactly especially on the part of italics
  

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Hello, Totioh—and welcome to English Forums. on how when people die you never see them again — about the fact that when people die, you never see them again. [on] how I'd imagined it — about the fact that I had only imagined (that she had disappeared).

  • Hello, Totioh—and welcome to English Forums.
  • on how when people die you never see them again — about the fact that when people die, you never see them again.
  • [on] how I'd imagined it — about the fact that I had only imagined (that she had disappeared).
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Hello, Totioh—and welcome to English Forums.

on how when people die you never see them again— about the fact that when people die, you never see them again.
[on] how I'd imagined it— about the fact that I had only imagined (that she had disappeared).
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thank for you reply

i have just thought that 'how' have to mean some method(or reason? way?mechanism) about he had done before in that dialogue.

then, in this case, 'how' is just used for kind of sentence form ??
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Totioh1then, in this case, 'how' is just used for kind of sentence form ??
Yes, and it is an informal form, not to be used in careful writing.

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