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Originally Posted by fathead
"Shined" instead of "shone" always trips me up and dumps me out of the story. Ditto, an author dropping double consonants - gravely and gravelly do NOT mean the same thing and why should I have to guess meaning from context.
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Hmmm...I always thought that the two words are both valid, but have different meanings.
"I shined my shoes this morning" vs "The sun shone brightly brightly today"
It seems the Chicago manual of style backs me up.
https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org...e/faq0302.html
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Please see CMOS 5.250:
shine. When this verb is intransitive, it means “to give or make light”; the past tense is shone {the stars shone dimly}. When it is transitive, it means “to cause to shine”; the past tense is shined {the caterer shined the silver}.
So the flashlight shone (gave or made light) because Mary shined it (caused it to shine) in front of them. (Note that “causing something to shine” has more than one meaning. Presumably, Mary didn’t shine her flashlight along with her forks.)
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Shari