Hello!
Is this sentence correct: “When I got closed, it exploded.”
The correct form is: " got closed" or “got close” ?
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Speaking of the ‘correct form’, you should keep in mind the difference in the meaning depending on whether ‘close’ is a verb or an adverb.
To me the original means someone got me closed (in order to kill\scare…, obviously) and then triggered the bomb or whatever they had designed to explode.
“When I got close [enough],…” is what I would expect with ‘close’ as an adverb.
Did they mean “When I got closer, it exploded” ?
The sentence should be,
When I got close (near), it exploded.
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That works too, but the two options you provided were ‘got closed’ or ‘got close’ and ‘close’ is the correct one of those two options.
closer - nearer to it than I am now.
close - near to it,
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