Structure Of "What Do We Learn Of~"
What do we learn of the manners and mores of the New Zealand people from this film?
I don't see what is what. I mean this is a complete sentence. We 'learn of' the manners and mores of the New Zealand people from this film. (learn of = 'to find out about someone or something')
This is right to me. How[in what way] do we learn of the manners and mores of the New Zealand people from this film? But this puzzled me. What do we learn of the manners and mores of the New Zealand people from this film? If only it were 'What do we learn____ from the manners and mores of the New Zealand people from this film', I'd be happy. We learn what from the manners and mores of the New Zealand people from this film.
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" In other words, there are things we learn about the manners and mores—what are those things? When you change it to "from", the meaning changes, as does the meaning of the second "from". " asks what the manners and mores teach us, the manners and mores of the people "from" (in) this film.
- " In other words, there are things we learn about the manners and mores—what are those things?
- When you change it to "from", the meaning changes, as does the meaning of the second "from".
- " asks what the manners and mores teach us, the manners and mores of the people "from" (in) this film.
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That "of" has the force of "about": "What do we learn about the manners …?" In other words, there are things we learn about the manners and mores—what are those things?
When you change it to "from", the meaning changes, as does the meaning of the second "from". "What do we learn from the manners and mores of the New Zealand people from this film?" asks what the manners and mores teach us
0KeunChulLeeI don't see what is what. I mean this is a complete sentence. We 'learn of' the manners and mores of the New Zealand people from this film. (learn of = 'to find out about someone or something')
Right, but we can also "learn X of Y", meaning find out X about Y, so the literal full answer to that question would be:
We learn X of the manner
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