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Wangqh2696122 Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Pls paraphrase "I can't believe she'd do that, not after all I've done for her."

Pls paraphrase "I can't believe she'd do that, not after all I've done for her."
  

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It means you helped her out in some way(s) and she did something bad to you. Example: A friend of yours has lost their apartment and he needs a place to stay. You let him live at your house and you pay for his food for three months until he can get an apartment.

— Chalkbrd

  • It means you helped her out in some way(s) and she did something bad to you.
  • Example: A friend of yours has lost their apartment and he needs a place to stay.
  • You let him live at your house and you pay for his food for three months until he can get an apartment.
  • As soon as he gets the new apartment, he never calls you or wants to talk to you.
  • " Chalk
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It means you helped her out in some way(s) and she did something bad to you.

Example: A friend of yours has lost their apartment and he needs a place to stay. You let him live at your house and you pay for his food for three months until he can get an apartment. As soon as he gets the new apartment, he never calls you or wants to talk to you. You would say, "I can't believe he'd do th
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Thank you for your wonderful explanation! By the way, would you please make a grammatical analysis? Why use "not after"? Is something omitted?
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I don't believe anything is omitted. The comma connects it to the previous part of the sentence like an addition to what has already been said. Let's take the "not" out for a moment. "After all I've done for her" isn't a complete sentence. It's part of the sentence that gives additional information to the "I can't believe she'd do that." The "not" is there to emphasize the negative in this ca
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"I can't believe she'd do that after all I've done for her!" is a perfectly reasonable sentence.
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AnonymousThank you for your wonderful explanation! By the way, would you please make a grammatical analysis? Why use "not after"? Is something omitted?
The missing piece can be explained as shown below. The 'not' is borrowed from the preceding clause.


I can't (cannot) believe she'd do that, (I can) not (believe it) after all I've d
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I think your interpretation of "after" as " considering" makes more sense than oxford advanced learner's dictionary, in which "after" is interpreted as "despite".

See the link below:

http://www.
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I can't understand why the dictionary makes such a mistake.
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wangqh2696122the link below
I took a look at that link, and it occurs to me that 'despite' (actually, 'despite the fact that') is more like the definition of 'not after', not the definition of 'after', in their example sentence.

I can't believe she would do that (bad thing), [despite the fact that / not after] I have done so much (good) for her
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