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caren_630

Help plzzzzz

Dear colleagues,

Will you plz help me with the coming two sentences??!!

1. The bank robbers were armed with weapons and explosives, which aroused havoc in the whole area.

I know that raise havoc with is an idiom which means to create confusion. But can I say aroused havoc? Would you consider it correct? Must I add an object as well??

2. Andrew was dancing happily late at night.

Is using late at night considered correct? Should it be late last night? Is this sentence grammatically correct? Should it be "Andrew danced happily late at night or late last night"? Can I consider later at night specific time in the past??

Thx a lot,

4 May 2016

yanogator

"Aroused havoc" really doesn �t work, because havoc is more the result of arousal than something to be aroused. In the US, at least, "wreaked havoc" is the most common expression.

If we aren �t talking about a specific time in the past, "Andrew was dancing happily late at night" is OK. If you try to put the sentence into a context, though, it might have to be changed. The sentence is grammatically correct.

No, "late at night" is not a specific time in the past. It is just a vague period of time, past, present or future.

The main difference with the continuous tenses is that they specify an action over a time period, rather than at a specific time, so either "was dancing" or "danced" can be correct. It all depends on the context and the intention.

Bruce

4 May 2016

caren_630

Thx a lot Bruce

4 May 2016

Jayho

Agree with Bruce on both points

Cheers

Jayho

4 May 2016

caren_630

Thx Jayho

5 May 2016