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Silak12 Posted 7 years ago
Grammar

Let me be vs bečome alive.

Hi everyone.

What is the difference in meaning between the two sentences?

Let me be alive.

Let me become alive.

Thanks!

  

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"be" suggests you are already alive. "become" suggests you are not yet alive, but you wish to change in such a way that you will be alive at the end of the process of changing. CJ

— CalifJim

  • "be" suggests you are already alive.
  • "become" suggests you are not yet alive, but you wish to change in such a way that you will be alive at the end of the process of changing.
  • CJ
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"be" suggests you are already alive.
"become" suggests you are not yet alive, but you wish to change in such a way that you will be alive at the end of the process of changing.

CJ

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