Question about grammar
I have a question about the following sentences, which I saw it in the TV series , the game of throne.
It would be appreciated if anyone could analysis the structure, and explain the meaning. Thank you.
1. What a wife would trust you the way I have trusted you.
2. What a wife would do for you the things I have done for you.
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就是没有人比我更相信你,没有人比我为你付出的更多~老婆对老公说的话,这两句应该是感叹句~
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I looked up these sentences. The speaker, Lysa, is trying to persuade the listener, Petyr to marry her right away. She says:
“What wife would do for you the things I’ve done for you? What wife would trust you the way I’ve trusted you?"
The general meaning is what she has done for Petyr is more than any wife would do for her husband; and the trust she has placed in him is greater than the trust any wife would placed in her husband. She is saying that since she has already gone so far beyond what anyone might expect from a wife, she deserves to be made Petyr's wife immediately.
“What wife" = who? what wife, what woman, what person anywhere on earth?
"would do...the things I’ve done...." = would perform these acts, carry out these requests
"...for you... for you?" => I think these 'for you's are the trickiest part of this sentence:
The first "for you" is made unnecessary by the second, and is in an unusual place in the word order. Lysa does this to emphasize "for you" by repeating it.
"What wife" = who, what person anywhere on earth?
"would trust you" = would believe in/rely on/commit to/place faith in you
"the way" = in the (same) way, in the manner, to the extent or degree
"I’ve trusted you?" = that I have believed in/relied on/committed to/placed faith in you?
So, we could reword these sentences as:
“Who, what wife, what person anywhere on earth, would do the things I’ve done FOR YOU? Who, what wife, what person anywhere on earth, would rely on and commit herself to you to the same extent that I have relied on and committed myself to you?"
Does that help make it clear?
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Hello Carol.
Your sentences are not correct. There isn't ''a'' because it's not proper English with it and there should be question marks at the end of the sentences.
The sentences should be like this:
1. What wife would trust you the way I have trusted you?
2. What wife would do for you the things I have done for you?
Now, these sentences are correct. In this case, ''what'' is a question word and it means that no other wife would trust him or do for him the things she has done....
There is also a possibility to put an article a or an after ''what'' but the structure and the meaning are totally different.
For example:
What a day! (singular)
What a mess!
What lovely flowers! (plural - no article)
In this case, ''what'' is a determiner and it is used in exclamations to express a strong feeling or opinion.
I hope this helps :)
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I suggest you check the sentences you have written. Neither is common or proper English. Were they written that way somewhere else? Or is that what you thought they said?
They would be more sensible without the 'a'.
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The first sentence is about the trust between a wife and a husband. It says that no other wife would trust him as much as she does.
And the other sentence is also about some couple. The woman is pointing out that nobody (no other wife) would give him the things that he got from her. She thinks that she gave him the most.
I hope I explained enough, so you get the true meaning.
I don't watch that show, but this is the meaning of those two sentences [emoji]
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