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Hi,
When you’re painting a fence, it’s almost inevitable that some of the paint ends up on your face.
Would you say that the paint ‘splattered over your face’ if you had a lot of dots of paint on your face?
I posted this question a while ago, but one native speaker told me that it was okay and a different one disagreed. He said that using the word ‘splatter’ isn’t appropriate in the given example.
What should I use then?
Thank you.
Top answer
Give us a sentence that you intend to use it in. The naked phrase sounds wrong, but there might be a suitable context. It's the "over" that's giving me trouble, and the nagging suspicion that you mean "spattered".
- Give us a sentence that you intend to use it in.
- The naked phrase sounds wrong, but there might be a suitable context.
- It's the "over" that's giving me trouble, and the nagging suspicion that you mean "spattered".
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Give us a sentence that you intend to use it in. The naked phrase sounds wrong, but there might be a suitable context. It's the "over" that's giving me trouble, and the nagging suspicion that you mean "spattered".
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