- Coreano
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Inglês (EUA)
Do you speak like "let + verb"?
I am confused by "lets loose" in the following text.
Are they both verbs?
- At night I can hear when Earl comes home from work. First the click and whine of the car door opening, then the scrape of concrete, and finally the moan of the wooden door as it opens and "lets loose" its sign of dampness.
I am confused by "lets loose" in the following text.
Are they both verbs?
- At night I can hear when Earl comes home from work. First the click and whine of the car door opening, then the scrape of concrete, and finally the moan of the wooden door as it opens and "lets loose" its sign of dampness.
- Inglês (EUA)
In this case, “let loose” is a compound verb, a verb made up of two words.
Let loose, in this case, means “release.”
The wooden door has gotten damp, and likely expanded. As he pushes it open, it makes a kind of noise that lets the listener know that the door has been damp (wet). Perhaps a creaking sound.
It “releases” that noise, thereby releasing evidence of the damp.
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