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Shined vs. Shone
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Shone
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Ways to tell them apart:
- Shined and shone both refer to the past tense of shine, but they are used differently in modern English usage.
- Generally, shined is used as the past tense of shine when shine is used as a transitive verb, meaning it has a direct object.
- Shone is commonly used when shine is used as an intransitive verb, meaning it does not take a direct object.
- Think of shined as something you actively did to an object, like He shined the flashlight on the road.
- Use shone when describing something that emitted light on its own, like The sun shone brightly in the sky.
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