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Mr. Tom Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Heats up VS gets heated up

Hi

Is there any difference between these two expressions?

These days, my laptop heats up very fast. Perhaps the fan is not working.

These days, my laptop gets heated up very fast. Perhaps the fan is not working.

Thanks,

Tom
  

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Mr. Tom These days, my laptop heats up very fast. Perhaps the fan is not working.

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Mr. TomThese days, my laptop heats up very fast. Perhaps the fan is not working.
This is fine. Or ".....my laptop gets hot very quickly...". I wouldn't use "get heated up" in this context.
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Hi Tom

I tend to think that when an object heats up, the temperature of the object rises by itself, i.e. without the help from external factors.

Conversely, when I think about an object getting heated up, I would think that one or more external factors are giving heat to that object and cause its temperature to go up.

So if the the fact that the fan is not working is cau
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