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Silak12 Posted 7 years ago
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It begins to grow light?

Hi, everyone.

Could you help me understand the construction in bold?

The https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/break of https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/day_1 or the break of https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/dawn is the time when it https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/begin to grow light after the https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/night

Does "grow light" here mean "become light"?

What begins to grow light?

I don't understand.


  

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silak12 Does "grow light" here mean "become light"? Yes. silak12 What begins to grow light?

  • silak12 Does "grow light" here mean "become light"?
  • Yes.
  • silak12 What begins to grow light?
  • It is a dummy "it", like in "it's raining" or "it's getting cold", for instance.
  • We use this kind of dummy "it" when talking about the weather and other similar things that happen in the environment.
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silak12Does "grow light" here mean "become light"?

Yes.

silak12What begins to grow light?

It is a dummy "it", like in "it's raining" or "it's getting cold", for instance. We use this kind of dummy "it" when talking about the weather and other similar things that happen in the environment.

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silak12What begins to grow light?

If you go outside two hours before before sunrise on a clear night, you will see the moon and stars against a black sky. As dawn approaches, the sky becomes lighter and lighter and the stars disappear. So the sky is the thing that gets light. Actually it is the atmosphere that causes this phenomenon. The air molecules ab

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