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Navitasan Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

With

A-With him things always become serious.

Can't this sentence mean two things:

1-Things become serious for him, in his mind. He turns everything into something serious in his mind.

2-Things become serious in a relationship one has with him. When one begins to have dealings with him, things become serious.
  

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Of course. 'Serious' has two meanings there. It could also mean that with him, things always become: ...

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Of course. 'Serious' has two meanings there. It could also mean that with him, things always become:

... apprehensive; critical