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Makski Posted 8 years ago
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How do you call this action

Say it's pitch pitch dark and you drop your keys, you bend down and start looking for your keys, but you can't see so how would you call that physical action?

  

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makski Say it's pitch pitch dark and you drop your keys, you bend down and start looking for your keys, but you can't see so how would you call that physical action? There are, at least, four physical actions there: "dropping your keys", "bending down", "starting looking for your keys", and, implied, "feeling around for the keys". There is also a state there: it's pitch-dark .

  • makski Say it's pitch pitch dark and you drop your keys, you bend down and start looking for your keys, but you can't see so how would you call that physical action?
  • There are, at least, four physical actions there: "dropping your keys", "bending down", "starting looking for your keys", and, implied, "feeling around for the keys".
  • There is also a state there: it's pitch-dark .
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makski

Say it's pitch pitch dark and you drop your keys, you bend down and start looking for your keys, but you can't see so how would you call that physical action?

There are, at least, four physical actions there: "dropping your keys", "bending down", "starting looking for your keys", and, implied, "feeling around for the keys".

There is also

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Shuffled. I think that's the one.

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