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Moody_m Posted 5 years ago
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A tall/ high/ long ladder

I fell off a tall or high or long ladder?

Is any of these correct?

Can I say fall from instead of fall of a ladder?

  

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moody_m I fell off a tall or high or long ladder? I would say "tall". moody_m Can I say fall from instead of fall off a ladder?

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  • moody_m I fell off a tall or high or long ladder?
  • I would say "tall".
  • moody_m Can I say fall from instead of fall off a ladder?
  • It depends on the context.
  • If you fall off a ladder, you suffered a fall from a ladder.
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moody_mI fell off a tall or high or long ladder?

I would say "tall".

moody_mCan I say fall from instead of fall off a ladder?

It depends on the context. If you fall off a ladder, you suffered a fall from a ladder. I have to suppose there are other contexts I'm not thinking of that would favor "off" or "from".

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moody_mI fell off a tall or high or long ladder?

All those collocations are used, as you can see from this frequency plot.

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