Je Ne Sais Quoi

• By: MARINA
• Album: PRINCESS OF POWER

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Grammar:

• YOU MAKE ME WANNA BE SOMEONE YOU LOVE

  ➔ Causative "make" + bare infinitive

  ➔ The structure "make someone do something" expresses that someone causes another person to do something. Here, 'you' cause 'me' to "wanna be" someone you love. The bare infinitive (without 'to') is used after 'make'.

• CAUSE I’VE NEVER BEEN LOVED BY SOMEBODY LIKE YOU

  ➔ Present Perfect Passive

  ➔ "I've never been loved" uses the present perfect passive to emphasize that the speaker hasn't ever experienced being loved in the way the other person does. The focus is on the speaker receiving the action (being loved).

• I’M FALLING FOR YOU

  ➔ Present Continuous for ongoing action/process

  ➔ The present continuous "I'm falling" indicates that the process of falling in love is happening right now, not a completed action.

• DON’T KNOW WHO YOU ARE

  ➔ Indirect Question/Embedded Question

  ➔ Instead of directly asking "Who are you?", it's embedded within the statement "I don't know". In indirect questions, the subject-verb order is not inverted as it would be in a direct question.

• YOU’RE HOTTER THAN GOD

  ➔ Comparative Adjective

  ➔ "Hotter than" is a comparative adjective used to compare the degree of hotness between the person being addressed and 'God'. It illustrates a hyperbole to emphasize attraction.

• MAYBE WE’RE BOTH AS BAD AS EACH OTHER

  ➔ "as + adjective + as" structure (equality comparison)

  ➔ This structure compares two things, stating that they are equal in a particular quality. In this case, 'we' and 'each other' are being compared in terms of 'badness'.

• LOVING IS TOUGHER

  ➔ Gerund as Subject + Comparative Adjective

  ➔ "Loving" is a gerund acting as the subject of the sentence. "Tougher" is a comparative adjective indicating that loving is more difficult than something else (implied heartbreak).