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Interestingly enough, in Sydney, one can alight a train or a tram, yet they set off when they get off a bus. But I think set off is on the way out now and won't
by inkyoto 3y ago
Interestingly enough, in Sydney, one can alight a train or a tram, yet they set off when they get off a bus. But I think set off is on the way out now and won't survive for long.
- chrismorgan 3y agoI hope it would be alight from a train or tram? As for “setting off”, how is that used in a sentence (with what subject and object)? In Victoria, the bus (or driver) could set you down or let you off, is that the structure you’re talking about? “Set off” has long been used in English to describe when you get underway on a journey (“and so we set off on our journey”).
- jrockway 3y agoWhen I was writing my original comment I first wrote "alight a train", but did some research and found "alight from a train" to be more common. I think it's fine to omit "from", however. We wouldn't be the first people to do it.
- inkyoto 3y agoIt is predominantly «alight to…» (to walk to a point of interest, to do something remarkable and similar), with no object. RE: «set off» vs «set down». It is «set down», of course. My brain was passing the gas at the time of typing it up.