The phrase “keep bugging” is usually used to describe “when somebody is bothering or annoying someone“. But what if it’s not somebody but something that does that?
- That idea I told you of keeps bugging me in my sleep.
- The sound of the generator keeps bugging me every night.
- This memory keeps constantly bugging me every day.
Can we use it that way?
Answer
Yes, inanimate objects and incorporeal ideas can “bug you”. The first and third examples you give sound great.
The second doesn’t, though, because things don’t “bug”, they “bug something”; bug is a transitive verb. You can say, “the sound of the generator keeps bugging me every night.”
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Source : Link , Question Author : SovereignSun , Answer Author : Matt
