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Moon7296 Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary

Light up

1. There was an explosion and the whole sky lit up.

2. The night sky was lit up with fireworks.

Is the underlined part in sentence 1 used as a passive phrase as in 2? or it is intransive?

If so, does it make sense if saying, There was an explosion and the whole sky was lit up.
  

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Is the underlined part in sentence 1 used as a passive phrase as in 2? -- It is intransitive. -- This is OK, too.

  • Is the underlined part in sentence 1 used as a passive phrase as in 2?
  • -- It is intransitive.
  • -- This is OK, too.
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Is the underlined part in sentence 1 used as a passive phrase as in 2? or it is intransive?-- It is intransitive.

If so, does it make sense if saying, There was an explosion and the whole sky was lit up.-- This is OK, too.

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