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Hans51 Posted 14 years ago
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Since before.
Hello, there. How have you been? Nowadays I am really into Spider-man series. I have never seen such a strange but touching hero. Anyhow, while watching it, I saw this sentence, "The woman I've loved since before I liked girls" Although I understood what he said, I have never seen "since before phrase". Is it okay to say it and is there a meaning difference between "since and since before" there?
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Kwang Hee Han "The woman I've loved since before I liked girls" It's a strange sentence, but the phrase "since before" is not uncommon in sentences such as this one: I have known how to dance since before you were born. It means that have a lot more experience at dancing than you ever will. If you leave out "before", the sentence tells us that I learned to dance when you were born.
- Kwang Hee Han "The woman I've loved since before I liked girls" It's a strange sentence, but the phrase "since before" is not uncommon in sentences such as this one: I have known how to dance since before you were born.
- It means that have a lot more experience at dancing than you ever will.
- If you leave out "before", the sentence tells us that I learned to dance when you were born.
- That's not the point.
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Kwang Hee Han"The woman I've loved since before I liked girls"It's a strange sentence, but the phrase "since before" is not uncommon in sentences such as this one:
I have known how to dance since before you were born.
It means that have a lot more experience at dancing than you ever will.
If you leave out "before", the senten
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