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ELA Drills, Beginner: Meanings 2 39 Views
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ELA Drills, Beginner: Meanings 2. This sentence is probably what?
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- 00:00
We sneak in and here's your shmoop du jour brought
- 00:04
to you by reese is pieces they were originally going
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to be called reese is bits of stuff but only
- 00:11
worried that might be too big All right look at
- 00:13
the sentence I love him to pieces The sentence is
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- 00:17
probably what i've even something your grandma said All right
- 00:21
And here potential answers Yeah it's Not like that Okay
- 00:25
well so somebody loves somebody else to pieces Maybe because
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they bought them candy at the movie theater Yeah we
- 00:31
know that's enough to change our opinion on just about
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anyone Yeah it doesn't take much So what is this
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sentence anyway Is it be a definition A definition of
- 00:40
what the word love isn't being defined nor is the
- 00:43
word teases There are no parts of speech or pronunciation
- 00:46
keys inside either So pretty safe to rule this one
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out is it D a phrase that changes awards meaning
- 00:53
well know the feeling of love we're talking about sounds
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like you know regular old vanilla love it's the same
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emotion we've used to describe our feelings about junior mints
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It was good The word pieces is a little trickier
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But it's Not that the meaning of the word changes
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instead it's the idea that the word has two meanings
- 01:10
both a literal and figurative one The literal meaning of
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pieces refers to actual physical bits or chunks of something
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like pieces of glass or pieces of pie The figurative
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or not literal meaning refers to someone feeling so many
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emotions that they almost stopped working So if you go
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to pieces you're probably having a hard time emotionally it's
- 01:31
Not that you're actually literally breaking into tiny fragments though
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so yeah a is our answer here If someone is
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being loved to pieces it just means that someone loves
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them so much They're liable to hug them until they
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break figuratively which will totally happen If you buy us
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a bucket of dibs Don't say we didn't warn you
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