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Expression: "It gets dried easily."



 
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Expression: "It gets dried easily." Thu Sep 06, 2007 16:09 pm  Expression: "It gets dried easily."
 

Hi

Which one of the following do you find better?

Quote:
It gets dried easily.
It gets dry easily.

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Expression: "It gets dried easily." Thu Sep 06, 2007 17:25 pm  Expression: "It gets dried easily."
 

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How about more context, Tom?
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Expression: "It gets dried easily." Thu Sep 06, 2007 21:11 pm  Expression: "It gets dried easily."
 

Here we go, Amy

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I wet my shirt in the rain, but surprisingly enough it got dry/ dried very fast.

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Expression: "It gets dried easily." Mon Sep 10, 2007 3:29 am  Expression: "It gets dried easily."
 

Thanks, Tom.

Your sentence is a bit odd:
I wet my shirt in the rain... --> This sounds as though you purposely made your shirt wet. And it's entirely possible that you were not even wearing your shirt and you may not have even been standing outside in the rain. Theoretically, you could have been holding your shirt in your hand inside your house, and then stretched your arm out an open window in order to make sure the shirt got wet (because it was raining outside).

A more usual beginning for your sentence would be this:
My shirt got wet in the rain...

In the context of your sentence, I'd use "it dried".

If you said "it got dried", that would suggest to me that someone else took your wet shirt and dried it for you (similar to a passive sentence).
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Expression: "It gets dried easily." Mon Sep 10, 2007 9:46 am  Expression: "It gets dried easily."
 

Hi Tom,

You could also fall back on a good old phrasal verb and say: It dried off.

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