Can you be locked in study?
In order not to be disturbed, he spent two hours ________ in his study.
A. locking
B. to lock
C. locked
D. being locked
C is said to be correct.
This is such a strange expression. Would you English speakers really use such an expression? Maybe my feeling is totally wrong.
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Ответы · 6
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A study is a type of room, so yes in this context it makes sense.
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Yes, it's perfectly correct and natural. "A study" is a room in a house. He was physically inside a room (his study).
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C. As in, he voluntarily stayed in his room
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It probably sounds wrong to you because you are thinking of it as a metaphor when it is probably literal: he locked the door not to be disturbed.
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