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Christine Christie Posted 5 years ago
Grammar

Turned

Consider the following sentence:



"We were in Brazil for a week when the weather turned."



In this context, does 'turned' mean the same as 'changed'?



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Christine Christie In this context, does 'turned' mean the same as 'changed'? Yes, but the sentence is a bit off. "

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Christine ChristieIn this context, does 'turned' mean the same as 'changed'?

Yes, but the sentence is a bit off. I would expect "We had been in Brazil for a week…."

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To me, 'the weather turned' suggets that it became roughly the opposite of what it was before.

eg it was cold but it became warm

eg it was dry, then it started to rain.

Clive

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