Thin out, kindle a fire
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1) If less students attended a lecture than last week, could I say one of these?
"The students here have thinned out quite a bit since last week."
"The number of students here have thinned out quite a bit since last week."
2) If I light a fire in a woodstove like this, can I use all of the options below?
- kindle a fire in the woodstove
- fire up the woodstove
- build a fire in the woodstove
Thank you.
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1. Students don't thin out, crowds or audiences do. For example: The audience/crowd has thinned out quite a bit since last week.
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- Students don't thin out, crowds or audiences do.
- For example: The audience/crowd has thinned out quite a bit since last week.
- 2.
- "A wood stove" is an old-fashioned wood-burning stove for cooking.
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1. Students don't thin out, crowds or audiences do. For example:
The audience/crowd has thinned out quite a bit since last week.
2. "A wood stove" is an old-fashioned wood-burning stove for cooking. "Kindle" is typically used for very small fires. "Fire up" is used for big devices like the boiler on a ship, and is rather melodramatic for use in the home. "Build a fi
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