dilodi83
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- I was watching the match on the tv and suddenly a cheer went up when the home team shot, but after a few seconds it died down.
- When another cheer went up from the stadium, though, my girlfriend's voice trailed off.
In these two sentences both thetwo phrasal verbs in bold mean that a sound or a voice or a noise becomes less loud little by little until it stops.
My question is: Are they used indifferently without any different shade of meaning or do you use them with some particular collocations so that maybe it's better to use one instead of the other?
Thanks so much for your explanation.
- When another cheer went up from the stadium, though, my girlfriend's voice trailed off.
In these two sentences both thetwo phrasal verbs in bold mean that a sound or a voice or a noise becomes less loud little by little until it stops.
My question is: Are they used indifferently without any different shade of meaning or do you use them with some particular collocations so that maybe it's better to use one instead of the other?
Thanks so much for your explanation.