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Grammar and Linguistics > cry FOR happiness or cry WITH happines?
cry FOR happiness or cry WITH happines?
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cry FOR happiness or cry WITH happines?
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Please! Give me a hand!
Thanks in advance!
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26 Jan 2012
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anaisabel001
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Hope it helps:
Cry with emotion
Cry from emotion
Cry out of emotion
Cry with laughter/rage
Weep with emotion
Cry for emotion> wrong
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26 Jan 2012
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Matthew@ELSP
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Both are OK but mean different things.
Cry for happiness seems to suggest that you desire happiness and maybe if you cry you can get it.
Cry with happiness shows the reason you are crying - happiness.
However, as treasure0911 suggests, "weep with joy", or perhaps even "cry with joy" are better. |
26 Jan 2012
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douglas
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Cry with joy (happiness).
The other sentence works as Mathew said, but only in very special (rare) situations-- a director that wants his actors to show more happiness in their acting could "cry for happiness". |
26 Jan 2012
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libertybelle
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Cry with joy is a figure of speech and it correct
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26 Jan 2012
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