Hi, I'm from Taiwan.
My friend is a wedding consultant.
And she is going to make her business card.
She wants to write something on her card.
Now she is confused on some grammar question.
"Your Happily Ever After" & "Your Happiness Ever After" & "Your Happy Ever After"
Which one's grammar is correct?
I told her "Your Happily Ever After" is correct.
But she was wishy-washy.
So could someone tell me the right answer?
Thank you.
2007-01-17 14:59:49 · 8 answers · asked by mattblvd 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Grammatically, "Your Happiness Ever After" is correct because there should be a noun, but it doesn't convey her meaning so "Your Happily Ever After" is a better choice.
If you want to make it more grammatically correct, try "Your Happily-Ever-After", because the phrase then becomes a noun.
2007-01-17 15:11:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
happily = adverb
adverbs = modify verbs
happy = adjective
adjectives = modify nouns
"ever after" = is not a verb or an adjective.
(so neither happy or happily go with it)
your phrase comes from " live happily ever after"
(happily modifying the verb live )
so assuming that, you may perfectly say YOUR HAPPILY EVER AFTER.
but if you mean something like " ever after life ", then you may say YOUR HAPPY EVER AFTER .
(happy modifying the noun life which , in this case can be ommitted)
hope i was clear explaining why and how both phrases are OK .
....by the way, great idea for the business card!
oh, and "YOUR HAPPINESS EVER AFTER" is perfect too, it is like saying "your happiness forever".
2007-01-17 16:30:24 · answer #2 · answered by peaceful light 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It really depends...is this going as just a sentence by itself? Because she could write something like,
"For Your Happily Ever After Needs" or something like that
2007-01-17 15:08:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Happily Ever After" is a commonly used expression in English. Therefore, while it isn't completely grammatically correct to say "your happily ever after," you can view the idea of "happily ever after" as a thing, and therefore it would not be incorrect to add a posessive pronoun to it.
However, I agree with dat's suggestion of just writing "Happily Ever After" and leaving it at that.
2007-01-17 15:33:19 · answer #4 · answered by Mel 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Your Happily-Ever-After or Your "Happily Ever After" are perfect.
2007-01-17 15:16:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your fortuitously ever after totally relies upon on what you're making of it. in case you have a damaging attitude in direction of lifestyles and "fortuitously ever after" customarily, then not something sturdy will come out of it. merely concentration on issues that make you happy and attempt to have a great outlook on lifestyles.
2016-12-16 07:18:33 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just put "Happily Ever After" . that's it!
2007-01-17 15:04:38 · answer #7 · answered by dat 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Your happy ever after.
2007-01-17 15:04:20 · answer #8 · answered by jayden 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋