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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
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I flinched my face when a bee approached on my eye. Is this sentence correct?
  

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Your sentence is not correct because "flinch" is not a transitive verb. It doesn't have an object. For that reason, you cannot have the object "face" after it.

  • Your sentence is not correct because "flinch" is not a transitive verb.
  • It doesn't have an object.
  • For that reason, you cannot have the object "face" after it.
  • I flinched when a bee approached my eye.
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Your sentence is not correct because "flinch" is not a transitive verb. It doesn't have an object. For that reason, you cannot have the object "face" after it.

I flinched when a bee approached my eye.

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