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Gene93 Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary
to get over/move on from someone
Hello,
Do both sentences sound fine? Here they are:
- Ten months had passed and she was still trying to get over him.
- Ten months had passed and she was still trying to move on from him.
Do they have different meanings in your opinion? I think that "move on from someone" is more similar to "overcome someone". I think we can get over people and still think about them (for example).
Do both sentences sound fine? Here they are:
- Ten months had passed and she was still trying to get over him.
- Ten months had passed and she was still trying to move on from him.
Do they have different meanings in your opinion? I think that "move on from someone" is more similar to "overcome someone". I think we can get over people and still think about them (for example).
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Gene93 Do they have different meanings in your opinion? In my experience, they do. To ‘move on from’ implies ‘putting it behind you’ but in the sense of forgetting about it.
- Gene93 Do they have different meanings in your opinion?
- In my experience, they do.
- To ‘move on from’ implies ‘putting it behind you’ but in the sense of forgetting about it.
- In a meeting situation, the topic may be discussed but not resolved; but the chair decides to 'move on'.
- To ‘get over him’ usually involves a more emotional experience, involving forgiving him or mending one’s heart.
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Gene93Do they have different meanings in your opinion?In my experience, they do.
To ‘move on from’ implies ‘putting it behind you’ but in the sense of forgetting about it.
In a meeting situation, the topic may be discussed but not resolved; but the chair decides to 'move on'.
To ‘get over him’ usually involves a more emotional experience, involvin
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Thank you, wilpeter. One last question. If we get over a person (in the context of relationships), wouldn't that imply that we are able to move on from them? Can we move on from people, who we have not got over?
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Interesting question! Let’s say Kathy was my girlfriend and she got tired of me. She had stopped enjoying my company and she moved on. I still loved her, and it took me a while to get over her. She doesn’t have to ‘get over me’ and I don’t have the option of ‘moving on from her’ (because she is no longer in my life to move on from.)
I would suggest that moving on is a voluntary action, whe
I would suggest that moving on is a voluntary action, whe
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Hmm...I see. This sense of "move on" seems to be quite similar to its physical sense, if not the same. If she decided to break up with her boyfriend, therefore she moved on from him. He would have to get over her or the breakup.
Quite a lot of people my age tend to use "get over". A friend of mine dumped her boyfriend about a year ago. We had a conversation in November and she said "I ha
Quite a lot of people my age tend to use "get over". A friend of mine dumped her boyfriend about a year ago. We had a conversation in November and she said "I ha
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Well, since there is more than one reason to dump someone, it is not impossible to reach a decision that the union will never go anywhere—maybe because the man is handsome but poor, or perhaps he’s cute but unfaithful, enjoyable but of the wrong faith, and so on. She may have dumped him for logical reasons but misses the fun they had. There’s no rule book for relationships.
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