Where did the expression 'love someone to the bones' come from? And is the meaning 'love someone too much' correct for that?
Love, Johnny Greenink. That is just how many people open and close every letter, whether the recipient is really "dear" or whether they really "love" them or not.
He had always had a fond love of literature. Love of something or love for something? What's the correct preposition to be used with love, in the above context?
What's the better preposition to use with "love" -- "love for" or "love ...
The conversation made me realise that, in English, the sentence " I love you much " sounds weird (we all agreed), whereas " I love you very much " sounds perfectly fine. Now, I'm not a linguist by any means, but to my knowledge the word 'much' in this case, is an adverb - as it modifies the verb to love.
Here's an instance of "Boo Boo" as a pet name or term of endearment from The Martin Marauder and the Franklin Allens: A Wartime Love Story, published in 1980 but presented in the form of letters written in the early 1940s—long before Yogi and Boo-Boo Bear. The Hathi Trust edition of the book refers to the contents as having been "collected" by three people—so it may really by from the ...
To answer your question directly, " With love " is not as forceful an ending as "love," and how it's understood will depend on the individual. It can be mistaken for a romantic overture, but there are also plenty of examples of friends trading letters that have "with love" in them.