Home & living
turn something off
stop a device operating
To turn something off means to stop a machine, device, light, or alarm from operating.
Hear it in real life
Why is the alarm still ringing?
I cannot find the button to turn it off.
Please turn the television off before you go to bed.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: turn off it
Say: turn it off
With a pronoun, put it between “turn” and “off”: “turn it off.”
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
turn something off; turn off something; turn it off
Your turn: say it out loud
Please turn the television off before you go to bed.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
turn something off
stop a device operating
“Please turn the television off before you go to bed.”
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