What is the difference in meaning?
Do these sentences all make sense?
1.He suddenly shot up on me
2.He suddenly shot out on me
(Here, shot is the past tense of shoot)
He suddenly shot up on me . He suddenly shot out on me . I can't make sense out of either of these.
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fire11.He suddenly shot up on me.
2.He suddenly shot out on me.
I can't make sense out of either of these.
In different words, what are they supposed to mean?
CJ
2 is ungrammatical. 1 is possible, the meaning being: "He suddenly rushed up to me."