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if a driver accidentally shakes the steering wheel,would it be right to tell him,''Dont deviate the steering wheel''?if its wrong,how would you say it?

Philip · Accepted Answer

I would simply tell him not to shake the steering wheel!

Clive · Answer

Twist is a more natural word than shake.

twist suggests a vigorous cicular motion.

shake suggests up and down, side to side, back and forth.

Say eg
Don't twist the wheel.
Steer carefully.

Tostyle un · Answer

and what i said was right either,right?

Clive · Answer

It's not completely wrong, but a native speaker is very, very unlikely to say that.

Clive

Tostyle un · Answer

Thank you so much!

CalifJim · Answer

tostyle unDont deviate the steering wheel

deviate is rarely transitive as you have used it here. Usually it's deviate from (something).

But if you use it with an object (i.e., transitively), the object would not be "steering wheel". The most common transitive uses are like this:

to deviate a river; to deviate a road; to deviate a ray of light

So you have something that is following a natural path of some kind, and when you deviate it, you cause it to take a different path.

CJ

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