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Taka Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Brighten

These tropical birds will surely brighten and bring life to any room.
What is the object of 'brighten' here? 'Life'?
  

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The object of "brighten" is "any room" "Brighten" is a verb, so you have to think of what it is making brighter, which is the room.

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  • The object of "brighten" is "any room" "Brighten" is a verb, so you have to think of what it is making brighter, which is the room.
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The object of "brighten" is "any room"

"Brighten" is a verb, so you have to think of what it is making brighter, which is the room.
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No doubt the speaker has any room in his mind as the object of brighten. From a strictly grammatical point of view, any room cannot be the object of brighten as the preposition to precedes it. We cannot say: It will brighten to any room; we have to say: It will brighten any room.

CB
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Good! The book I have says the object is 'life', which I thought was strange.
Thanks!
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