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Vincent Teo Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Light up / made / built a campfire

Can I say,

(a) When it was night, they light up the campfire and sat round it / sat round the campfire.



(b) They made / built a campfire for warm / to keep warm. They sat around / by the campfire / sat round of it.



(c) When they had made a campfire, they fried the fish with / over it. A moment later, they felt hungry and ate the fried fish.
  

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(a) "When it was night, they lit up the campfire and sat round it/sat round the campfire" - OKAY You use "lit" and not "light" because "lit" is the past tense of the verb "to light" and your passage is in the past tense. " (b) "They made a campfire to keep warm/for warmth" are proper. "They sat around the campfire" - OKAY.

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  • (a) "When it was night, they lit up the campfire and sat round it/sat round the campfire" - OKAY You use "lit" and not "light" because "lit" is the past tense of the verb "to light" and your passage is in the past tense.
  • " (b) "They made a campfire to keep warm/for warmth" are proper.
  • "They sat around the campfire" - OKAY.
  • "They sat by the campfire" - OKAY.
  • "They sat round of it" - NOT OKAY; WRONG.
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(a) "When it was night, they lit up the campfire and sat round it/sat round the campfire" - OKAY

You use "lit" and not "light" because "lit" is the past tense of the verb "to light" and your passage is in the past tense.

Note that you can also say "around the campire."

(b) "They made a campfire to keep warm/for warmth" are proper.

"They sat around
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