She didn’t care about what her father thought.

[thehammer]

Which one is correct?

1- She didn’t care about what her father thought.
2- She didn’t care what her father thought.

 

[Barque]

Both. They mean slightly different things.

 

[Barque]

They could also mean the same thing depending on context. You haven't provided any.

If you want to say she didn't care what her father thought of things that she did (as I suspect you do), use the second.

 

[thehammer]

They could also mean the same thing depending on context. You haven't provided any.

If you want to say she didn't care what her father thought of things that she did (as I suspect you do), use the second.

Thank you. Then what the first one mean? I don't have any context to provide. I could not figure out the difference between them so I asked this.

 

[Barque]

Then what the first one mean?

Then what does the first one mean? (Note the correction. Much more important than your question.)

1 - general. She didn't care about anything her father thought.

2 - see my post #3.

 

[jutfrank]

Rather than try to discriminate a difference in meaning, it might be more useful to focus on these two grammatical patterns:

care about somebody/something

I don't care about your silly party.
She doesn't seem to care about me at all.
You don't seem to care much about making mistakes.


care + wh-clause

I honestly don't care what you think.
Do you really care whether I come or not?
I don't care where we go—I just want to get out of the house.

She didn’t care what her father thought.

The bold part is a wh-clause, so you don't need to say about.

 

[Tarheel]

@jutfrank You did that quite well. However, I still think it takes practice to understand the pattern. (The teacher can only do so much. At least half of the task is up to the learner )