Kolridg
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Dear teachers and native speakers,
Could you tell, please, when you say "I slept well", does verb "to sleep" work there like "to do" in phrase A or in phrase B?
a) We did it all day. (We were busy with it all the day, i.e. it was lasting action);
b) We did it by noon yesterday. (accomplished by noon);
In other words, I am interested to know, whether in original sentence phrase "slept well" conveys sense of a sleep that was being well while it was lasting, or if it conveys sense of an accomplished sleep that is assessed as well done. At that, of course, first doesn't exclude second, and moreover, both mean the same, but I still decided to ask out of curiousity, because the ways of thinking of the same thing here are still different.
Thanks.
Could you tell, please, when you say "I slept well", does verb "to sleep" work there like "to do" in phrase A or in phrase B?
a) We did it all day. (We were busy with it all the day, i.e. it was lasting action);
b) We did it by noon yesterday. (accomplished by noon);
In other words, I am interested to know, whether in original sentence phrase "slept well" conveys sense of a sleep that was being well while it was lasting, or if it conveys sense of an accomplished sleep that is assessed as well done. At that, of course, first doesn't exclude second, and moreover, both mean the same, but I still decided to ask out of curiousity, because the ways of thinking of the same thing here are still different.
Thanks.
