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KaaJee Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary

What does light do

What does light do when you switch on the light. It isn't clear for me what word should be used. Light lights up. Or: There lit up light in darkness. Is that the right version?
  

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When you switch/turn on the light, the light goes on .

— Mister Micawber

  • When you switch/turn on the light, the light goes on .
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When you switch/turn on the light, the light goes on.
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Thank you but can I put one more question? My example was wrong. I thought about a word, if it exists, which is used independently of the scene. At least I think when light goes on, it takes a room of a house, or not? So, for e.g. when dawn comes, and light appears, what does light do then? (Aside from appearing.) But maybe it dawns and that's all. Then suppose you are going on a very dark place (
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Not rather begins to shine? If I say that light shines, it is continuos happening, it doesn't happen in that moment, I think.
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If you really want to make a distinction, then it begins shining or begins to shine.
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Sure, begins to shine. Shines out suddenly. A glow appears and grows. A glimmer turns to a gleam and then to a glow that flashes into a flood of light. There are a million ways to put it. The dawn light appears. The first rays of the new day creep over the horizon to reveal their same old secret.
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Yes, I really do but you seem to suggest that it's not a general phrase. I thought that there is a general verb used when there is darkness in any place, and a moment comes when light comes to being. It seems to me that there's nothing better than "appears."
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KaaJeeIt seems to me that there's nothing better than "appears."
I didn't want to state that (in case I just couldn't think of the words), but I think you're right. Light appears.
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