Timeline for Verb to refer to objects that are orderly positioned side by side?
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| Oct 16, 2013 at 15:10 | vote | accept | wyc | ||
| Oct 16, 2013 at 14:45 | comment | added | placeholder | Copied from comment below - The use of aligned does not imply a nearness for example "... as the planets aligned". The use of the word stacked indicates intimate contact. Aligned only fits one aspect of the situation. | |
| Oct 16, 2013 at 13:34 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | I agree with this, but would point out that in the asker’s example phrase, “perfectly” sounds better before the verb: “The books were perfectly aligned side by side”. | |
| Oct 16, 2013 at 13:29 | history | answered | SF. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |