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Sat 8 Dec, 2007 10:24 am
Once a fly ends up on a frog's tongue, it gets stuck.
Are the words in bold correctly used?
Many thanks.
Yes, that's okay. It's not great literature, but it's not incorrect.
"ends up" means that this is the last thing that fly will do.
example: Fred's history with drugs resulted in him ending up in jail.
No, it doesn't mean it's 'the last thing' he'll do.
He ended up going to Harvard instead of Yale.
You'd better watch it, gus, or you'll end up head first in your swamp.
gustavratzenhofer wrote:I would enjoy that.
Hi Gus
Once a fly
ends up on a frog's tongue, it gets stuck.
Mc Tag has answered that's the words are correctly used. I'm not doubting Mc Tag, but I want you to tell me whether the words are correctly used.
Mame wrote:No, it doesn't mean it's 'the last thing' he'll do.
He ended up going to Harvard instead of Yale.
That's some fly! He escaped, got himself an education. What became of him after that, Mame?
Yoong Liat wrote:gustavratzenhofer wrote:I would enjoy that.
Hi Gus
Once a fly
ends up on a frog's tongue, it gets stuck.
Mc Tag has answered that's the words are correctly used. I'm not doubting Mc Tag, but I want you to tell me whether the words are correctly used.
I'm not sure if the fly gets stuck but it sure as hell gets eaten.
Well, language does operate by consensus, after all. Yoong has every right to be sceptical about what we tell him/her, considering how often we get into knockdown-dragouts.
Yeah, it's correct, but it's pretty informal and your level of discourse doesn't seem to descend to the informal very often, Yoong (or is Liat your first name, considering it's two syllables--any relation to Liat in "South Pacific"?)
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