Timeline for the adverb between verb and preposition
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| Feb 24, 2021 at 0:05 | vote | accept | yixuan | ||
| Feb 23, 2021 at 16:10 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | to care about usually refers to either being concerned [about someone's welfare] OR being annoyed [by something]. But you haven't provided enough context to say which of those (or something totally different) applies. Note that trhere's also to care for, which usually means either to look after someone, or to feel great affection for them. But the distinction I just flagged up above doesn't seem so relevant to I care more for him / I care for him more, where (to me, at least) both versions are equally likely to carry either of those different senses. | |
| Feb 23, 2021 at 15:30 | comment | added | yixuan | @FumbleFingers I think if I interpret it as 'I think more of you', it seems right too. | |
| Feb 23, 2021 at 15:11 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | I can't easily see any potential for a semantic distinction with the example as given. But I'm in no doubt that Having read your letter, I think more of you would nearly always be interpreted as meaning I think more highly of you (you have gone up in my estimation). On the other hand, ...I think of you more would be interpreted as meaning I think of you more often (I'm preoccupied with thinking about you). In short, just because more modifies think in both cases doesn't mean they're semantically equivalent. | |
| Feb 23, 2021 at 13:15 | comment | added | BillJ | In both cases "more" modifies the verb phrase "care about others". | |
| Feb 23, 2021 at 13:03 | answer | added | Patriot | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 23, 2021 at 11:49 | history | asked | yixuan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |