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Tracyteo Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

The meaning of sentences

What do 'had fretted after him' and 'ceased to fret for' mean in these sentences?

She had fretted after him.
She ceased to fret for his love.
  

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Probably a girl was in love with someone who wasn't in love with her. For a while she let it make her really upset, but then she got over it.

— Elanguest

  • Probably a girl was in love with someone who wasn't in love with her.
  • For a while she let it make her really upset, but then she got over it.
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Probably a girl was in love with someone who wasn't in love with her. For a while she let it make her really upset, but then she got over it.
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tracyteo What do 'had fretted after him' and 'ceased to fret for' mean in these sentences?She had fretted after him.She ceased to fret for his love.
They are wrong uses of the word "fret", but the meaning is conveyed nonetheless. She agitated herself over him and then did not.
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Thanks Elanguest,
I'm sorry but I still don't understand the usage/meaning of 'after him' in the sentence.

She had fretted [after him].
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Don't think of after him as a phrase. Think of fret after as a phrasal verb in the first sentence as fret for is a phrasal verb in the second. Does that help?
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