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 by: arthurvv vart - Sun, 1 Oct 2023 02:48 UTC

1) You know how easily upset she gets.

Is that sentence grammatical?
Is it idiomatic?

I heard it in the series "Big Little Lies".

Source:

https://transcripts.foreverdreaming.org/viewtopic.php?p=148489

It does not sound grammatical to me. I'd have said:
2) You know how easily she gets upset.

3) You know how badly upset she gets.
works for me. Here 'badly' modifies 'upset'.

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 by: bil...@shaw.ca - Sun, 1 Oct 2023 05:21 UTC

On Saturday, September 30, 2023 at 7:48:45 PM UTC-7, arthurvv vart wrote:
> 1) You know how easily upset she gets.
>
> Is that sentence grammatical?
> Is it idiomatic?
>
> I heard it in the series "Big Little Lies".

I'm not familiar with "Big Little Lies", but it needs a good editor.

For starters, try: You know how easily she gets upset.
>
> Source:
>
> https://transcripts.foreverdreaming.org/viewtopic.php?p=148489
>
> It does not sound grammatical to me. I'd have said:
> 2) You know how easily she gets upset.
>
> 3) You know how badly upset she gets.
> works for me. Here 'badly' modifies 'upset'.
>
Badly upset? Are we distinguishing now between people who do
a very good job of becoming upset, and those who botch it completely?

bill

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 by: Peter T. Daniels - Sun, 1 Oct 2023 13:15 UTC

On Sunday, October 1, 2023 at 1:21:36 AM UTC-4, bil...@shaw.ca wrote:
> On Saturday, September 30, 2023 at 7:48:45 PM UTC-7, arthurvv vart wrote:
> > 1) You know how easily upset she gets.
> >
> > Is that sentence grammatical?
> > Is it idiomatic?
> >
> > I heard it in the series "Big Little Lies".
>
> I'm not familiar with "Big Little Lies", but it needs a good editor.

Unless, of course, it's aiming for realistic idiomatic dialog, which
does not necessarily observe all the niceties of Standard Written
English.

> For starters, try: You know how easily she gets upset.
> >
> > Source:
> >
> > https://transcripts.foreverdreaming.org/viewtopic.php?p=148489
> >
> > It does not sound grammatical to me. I'd have said:
> > 2) You know how easily she gets upset.
> >
> > 3) You know how badly upset she gets.
> > works for me. Here 'badly' modifies 'upset'.
> >
> Badly upset? Are we distinguishing now between people who do
> a very good job of becoming upset, and those who botch it completely?

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