Posted by John on Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at 8:03pm.
You're right. The verb grow can be either transitive or intransitive.
Although # 1 is most common, # 2 is also correct.
Thank you. Then, do you mean in #1, 'grew' was used as a transitive verb and 5 cm is the object of 'grew'?
Right.
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