I am an English teacher who has discovered a text book which states "turn out the light". Any comments? I am sure the phrase is "turn off".
Are you sure that you are a native speaker? This seems an odd question if you are. I am sure that most of us would tend to use one of these, whichever we choose, in preference to the other, but we know of the existence of the other.i am an english teacher who has discovered a text book which states "turn out the light" any comments? i am sure the phrase is "turn off"
:up: I use 'turn off', but I imagine in the days when houses were lit by Gas lighting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
both 'down' and 'out' were common.
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Indeed they were, Bob. There was gas lighting in my house until I was nine years old.
Lincoln's Inn still has some gas street lamps.