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Angliholic Posted 18 years ago
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sprang to her feet

0Tina01b00 sprang to her feet02b00 when she saw a spider next to the chair.02br
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00Tina sprang up from her seat ...02br
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00Tina sprang out of her seat ...02br
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00In our language, I don't think we would use the first one in the above. The other two are how we would say it, but do they sound good and mean about the same as the first? Thanks.0-
  

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" "Sprang to his feet" is the kind of thing a polite young man might do when his grandmother enters the room. ) 02br 02br 00Do you know the lovely Leigh Hunt poem "Rondeau"? 02br 00Say I'm weary, say I'm sad,02br 00Say that health and wealth have miss'd me,02br 00Say I'm growing old, but add,02br 00Jenny kiss'd me.

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  • " "Sprang to his feet" is the kind of thing a polite young man might do when his grandmother enters the room.
  • ) 02br 02br 00Do you know the lovely Leigh Hunt poem "Rondeau"?
  • 02br 00Say I'm weary, say I'm sad,02br 00Say that health and wealth have miss'd me,02br 00Say I'm growing old, but add,02br 00Jenny kiss'd me.
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0 Well, I think they would all do, actually, but yes---for me, the last two convey just a shade bigger movement than the first - more surprise, especially "sprang out of her seat." "Sprang to his feet" is the kind of thing a polite young man might do when his grandmother enters the room. (Well, in the world of my dreams polite young men behave this way.) 02br
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