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Gene93 Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

To turn an airplane dark

Hello,

Does this sentence "Just before take-off the pilots turned the plane dark" sound okay? All I know is that they tend to dim the lights inside the plane from time to time (and sometimes before take-off). I don't know much about aviation, but this sentence sounds a little unusual to me. Dim is not exactly dark, but I don't know much about aviation, so it might be okay. What do you normally say?


Thank you.

  

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I'd say 'They dimmed the lights'. '

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I'd say 'They dimmed the lights'.

I've never heard 'They turned the plan dark.'

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It sounds a bit weird to me. You can say "the pilot(s) dimmed / turned off the cockpit lights".

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