your heart goes out to somebody
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1. break somebody’s heart: to hurt or upset someone deeply
It is never a good idea to break someone’s heart.
2. close/dear to heart: someone close to you
My best friend is very close to my heart.
3. from the (bottom of your) heart: feel for someone genuinely
I love my parents from the bottom of my heart.
4. have a heart: to evoke feeling and help someone in pain
The beggar on the roadside asked the shopkeeper to have a heart and give him some food to eat.
5. have a heart of stone: a person with no feelings or sentiments
The man beat up the beggar on the road as he has a heart of stone.
6. your heart goes out to somebody: to sympathise with someone
My heart goes out to the little boy who lost his parents in the air crash.
Question V:
Contracted Forms
When we speak, we use ‘contracted forms’ or short forms such as these:
can’t (for can not or cannot) I’d (for I would or I had) she’s (for she is)
Notice that contracted forms are also written with an apostrophe to show a shortening of the spelling of not, would, or is as in the above example.
Writing a diary is like speaking to oneself. Plays (and often, novels) also have speech in written form. So we usually come across contracted forms in diaries, plays and novels.
1. Make a list of the contracted forms in the text. Rewrite them as full forms of two words.
For example:
I’ve = I have
2. We have seen that some contracted forms can stand for two different full forms:
I’d = I had or I would
Find in the text the contracted forms that stand for two different full forms, and say what these are.
- (i) I’ve – I have
(ii) Can’t – Cannot
(iii) I’m – I am
(iv) Won’t – Would not
(v) Don’t – Do not
(vi) Doesn’t – Does not
(vii) Didn’t – Did not
(viii) Who’ll – Who will
(ix) You’re – You are
(x) There’s – There is
(xi) I’d – I would
(xii) We’ll – We will
(xiii) He’d – He had
(xiv) That’s – That is
(xv) Who’s – Who is
(xvi) Haven’t – Have not
(xvii) It’s – It is
(xviii) Wouldn’t – Would not
2. (i) I’d – I had or I would
(ii) It’s – It is or It has
(iii) Who’s – Who is or Who has
(iv) That’s – That is or That has