Oct 16, 2012 · A tree falls in the woods, but a logger falls trees as well. but in the past tense, A tree fell in the woods, but the logger felled a tree. However, if it's not a tree, or if it's not a …

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 …

Apart from irrelevant collocations like these twisting, tree-felling night winds, and OCR errors (felling = falling), all the instances in Google Books I can read seem to be from The Name of …

How can I explain to people that the phrase off of is grammatically incorrect? I‘ve heard this phrase used a lot, especially by Americans (though they aren't the only ones). In my …

Is it not therefore the case that we use "on" for statements of condition - "something has fallen on the roof of the car"? But we would use "to" descriptively for the action of falling - "the tree, …

Nov 22, 2017 · The meaning here is that the wood has has come from a tree, and this has some consequence now. You might for instance hear someone say this if they were making a case …

Jan 17, 2023 · @FumbleFingers The distinction is a causative one: laying something makes it lie just like raising something makes it rise and felling a tree makes it fall.

Dec 8, 2010 · If you were to say two people were "sitting on a tree" in this case, it would imply that the tree was on the ground—i.e., that it had fallen or been cut down. Sitting "in" a tree means …

What is the word for when you feel the same as someone, you see them in yourself or you are in the same situation? I think it starts with the letter C.

(a) Feeling good is the usual phrase. (b) Feeling is not a "verb of being"; there are no such things. Rather, feeling is a sense verb, representing personal sensory perception and its metaphoric …