As soon as I met Josha's family, everything came to light

[mmahuii]

Does this sentence sound natural?

As soon as I met Josha's family, everything came to light.

 

[5jj]

It depends on the message you are trying to convey. What is the context?

 

[mmahuii]

It's an exercise in a book of learning English that we should complete the sentence with the correct choice.
The sentence is: "As soon as I met Josha's family, everything ........ ."

The correct answer (in the book) is "fell into place", but I think that "came to light" can also be a correct answer. So I asked that does it sound natural.

 

[5jj]

It's an exercise in a book of learning English

In future, please tell us the name of the book and author.

The sentence is: "As soon as I met Josha's family, everything ........ ."

The correct answer (in the book) is "fell into place", but I think that "came to light" can also be a correct answer. So I asked that does it sound natural.

No.

 

[tedmc]

It's an exercise in a book of learning English that we should complete the sentence with the correct choice.
The sentence is: "As soon as I met Josha's family, everything ........ ."

The correct answer (in the book) is "fell into place", but I think that "came to light" can also be a correct answer. So I asked that does it sound natural.

"Came into light" means "became known". It begs the question "what became known?" I think the phrase leaves the sentence dangling.

 

[emsr2d2]

"Came into light" means "became known". It begs the question "what became known?" I think the phrase leaves the sentence dangling.

No, "came to light" means that. "Came into light" means nothing.

 

[Rover_KE]

It's an exercise in a book of learning English that we should to complete the sentence with the correct choice.

Welcome to the forum, @mmahuii.

What were the other choices?

Please remember to give us as much context as possible.

 

[mmahuii]

Welcome to the forum, @mmahuii.

What were the other choices?

Please remember to give us as much context as possible.

As I said the answer of the book is "fell into place", but I think that "came to light" can also be a correct answer.

 

[emsr2d2]

As I said, the answer of in the book is "fell into place", but I think that "came to light" can could also be correct. a correct answer.

If this gap-fill exercise came with no other context, and "came to light" was one of the other options, I have to agree with you, with one reservation - "everything fell into place" (or "it all fell into place") is practically a set phrase whereas "everything came to light" isn't. They would both lead to grammatically correct sentences.

Out of curiosity, are you sure the original used "Josha" as the name, rather than "Joshua"? I've never heard of the former.

 

[jutfrank]

Does this sentence sound natural?

As soon as I met Josha's family, everything came to light.

Yes.

It's an exercise in a book of learning English that we should complete the sentence with the correct choice.
The sentence is: "As soon as I met Josha's family, everything ........ ."

The correct answer (in the book) is "fell into place", but I think that "came to light" can also be a correct answer. So I asked that does it sound natural.

I think you're saying that 'came to light' was one of a few multiple-choice options. If that's the case, my judgement is that on balance the question fails since the context is too poor to make a choice.

However, in defence of the validity of the question, there is an argument that could be made that the phrase 'fell into place' collocates more strongly with the time phrase 'as soon as' than 'came to light' does. I might guess that this is what the writer perhaps had in mind.

 

[mmahuii]

Out of curiosity, are you sure the original used "Josha" as the name, rather than "Joshua"? I've never heard of the former.

Thank you for correction. "Joshua" is correct.