Oct 16, 2012 · causative: fell, felled, has/be felled, as opposed to intransitive: fall, fell, has fallen However, felling a dynasty or regime, or anything except a man, animal, or tree, is pretty rare …

Apr 13, 2018 · I'm interested in the distinctions between these three terms. Here's what I already know: timber is wood that is still attached to the ground, and still has its bark on. Lumber is …

Feb 21, 2018 · Felling is associated with the idea of (some agent) making the subject fall, while falling refers simply to the subject's fall. fell verb 1 Cut down (a tree) ‘33 million trees are felled …

Down in the phrase He fell down the stairs is an adverb, as is off in the following: She fell off her bicycle. Although in both instances the person ends up on the ground, in the latter we don't …

Oct 21, 2011 · -3 Does it come from pioneer days of sawing trees by hand? Top dog was the one on top, and clean, underdog was the one in the pit below the felled tree sawing away getting …

Subjectively, I feel there is a difference between the two. Since the focus of "fell to the ground" is on the distance moved to the ground, I would expect the next sentence to focus on the …

Same thing here: "a great distance" is not what was "felled", it was how the thing fell. By the way, "fell" can also be a transitive verb, though the usage is not common.

Jan 27, 2022 · [The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.] Although usually used metaphorically nowadays, literal examples do exist: Somerset is said to have …

Mar 29, 2014 · Which you should prefer depends on the particular circumstances, and what is being fallen from (or off). You would usually fall off a bicycle, off the wagon or off the radar. …

Nov 29, 2022 · Both are attested Before Modern English, there were really no overarching prescriptivist entities, so the concept of "correct" spellings didn't exist. What we have are …