504 GG Shined or Shone? Idioms About Tea
Grammar Girl: For Writers and Language Lovers.
Mignon Fogarty, Inc.
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🗓️ 18 February 2016
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Grammar Girl here. |
| 0:07.8 | This week I have a quick and dirty tip about Shined versus Shown and a meaty middle with |
| 0:13.1 | idioms about T. |
| 0:15.9 | A listener named Mary Jean asked about the past tense of the verb Shine. |
| 0:21.4 | Is it Shined or Shown? |
| 0:24.1 | The frustrating answer is that it can be either Shined or Shown. |
| 0:28.7 | Some sources recommend using Shined when the verb has an object and Shown when the |
| 0:34.4 | verb doesn't have an object. |
| 0:37.1 | Here's an example with an object. |
| 0:39.7 | ArtVarq Shined the light in squiggly's eyes. |
| 0:43.9 | The light is the object of the verb Shined. |
| 0:46.4 | It's the thing being Shined by ArtVarq. |
| 0:50.1 | Here's another one. |
| 0:51.1 | ArtVarq Shined his shoes. |
| 0:54.5 | This time Shined means polished, but the verb still has an object, his shoes. |
| 1:00.7 | And here's an example without an object. |
| 1:03.3 | The moon Shown brightly. |
| 1:06.3 | The moon is just shining. |
| 1:08.3 | The verb Shown has no object. |
| 1:11.7 | The rhyme it's shown when alone will help you remember to use Shown when the verb is |
| 1:17.8 | alone. |
| 1:19.1 | In other words, when the verb has no object. |
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