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Moon7296 Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary

sounds right?(how to express)

1. She loved him to the point she killed herself.
2. I wonder how much she loved him that she (chose to) killed herself?

Q) Does the question #2 make sense(grammatically and semantically)?
  

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Let me rephrase sentence 1. " In sentence 2. I think you want to wonder about truth of such a claim.

— Deadrat

  • Let me rephrase sentence 1.
  • " In sentence 2.
  • I think you want to wonder about truth of such a claim.
  • " But you're not wondering at the suicide but at the failure of love to prevent it.
  • "
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Let me rephrase sentence 1. as "She loved him so much that she killed herself." In sentence 2. I think you want to wonder about truth of such a claim. The problem is that "that she killed herself" has the same attraction to "I wonder" as "how much she loved him." But you're not wondering at the suicide but at the failure of love to prevent it.

I think what you want to say is

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deadratBut you're not wondering at the suicide but at the failure of love to prevent it.
You're right. Thank you for reading what I thought.
deadrat"I wonder how much she could have loved him if she killed herself." or"I wonder that she killed herself if she loved him so much."
What does "if" in each of your sentences
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Sorry to be opaque. Not conditional. I mean, "The fact that she killed herself makes me wonder whether she could have loved him at all." This is related to the observation that suicide can seem a hostile act designed to inflict survivor with a sense of loss. Thus from the proposition:

If you love someone, then you don't want to hurt him.

we can draw an inference
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