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Mona Lisa /smile
Message from tatu posted on 11-06-2012 at 12:25:15 (D | E | F)
Hello,

I would like to ask you about grammar in the title of the movie I have watched on television: "Mona Lisa smile".
I think it's wrong because there is no "s"; if "smile" is used like a verb or not " 's " if "smile" is a noun.
I don't know exactly what it means. Is this right or wrong?
Thank you in advance.

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Edited by lucile83 on 11-06-2012 12:27

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Re: Mona Lisa /smile from sherry48, posted on 11-06-2012 at 14:22:58 (D | E)
Hello.
You suggested Mona Lisa smiles. That is a complete sentence, since the verb agrees with the third person subject. However, since this is a title, it may be an incomplete sentence. I can also suggest the possessive, Mona Lisa's Smile. A less likely possibility is the imperative...Mona Lisa, Smile! Have a nice day! Sherry

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Re: Mona Lisa /smile from a_limon, posted on 11-06-2012 at 16:24:10 (D | E)
Hello!
I think "smile" is the noun in this title. Mona Lisa is the modifier of the "smile". (the smile of Mona Lisa(in a figurative sense)

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Re: Mona Lisa /smile from gerondif, posted on 11-06-2012 at 17:07:50 (D | E)
Hello,

maybe Mona Lisa is taken as an adjective qualifying the noun as in:
she gave me an enigmatic smile,a wry smile, a "Mona Lisa" smile, meaning a Mona Lisa type of smile

The difference would be:
Look at Mona Lisa's smile: It is really her smile, the smile on Leonardo Da Vinci's painting.
I hate her Mona Lisa smile: it is not her smile it is a smile which looks like the one on the painting.
I hate the smile she gives me, I don't know what to make of it.

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Re: Mona Lisa /smile from a_limon, posted on 11-06-2012 at 17:14:10 (D | E)
Hello!

Gerondif, it's exactly what I mean. ("Mona Lisa" smile, meaning Mona Lisa type of smile). (not Smile of Mona Lisa)

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