Brightstorm Q & A : The steetlights shine brightly in the moon? Do the streetlights shine in the moon itself because this the example you give. Maybe it would be better to say, ' The streetlights shine brightly on the pavement'. You also changed the tense of the compound predicate - placing this in the past - you could have easily left shine and flicker brightly - so that the sentence still remains in the present... sorry! good lesson though