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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Is this sentence correct?

look out !the wall is going to fall down.
  

Top answer

the wall is going to fall down. It needs help in the way it is presented. You need correct capitalization and spacing.

— CalifJim

  • the wall is going to fall down.
  • It needs help in the way it is presented.
  • You need correct capitalization and spacing.
  • L ook out !
  • T he wall is going to fall down.
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Anonymouslook out !the wall is going to fall down.
It needs help in the way it is presented. You need correct capitalization and spacing.

Look out! The wall is going to fall down.

CJ
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Nearly.

Look out! The wall is going to fall down. (That is your sentence corrected, however a native may say something more like this). Look out! The wall is about to collapse (fall down).
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Just a little query. Do we need to mention 'down'? Because anything that falls, has to come down. Emotion: mmm
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SokaJust a little query. Do we need to mention 'down'? Because anything that falls, has to come down.
No, you are correct you can just say it is about to fall. That is why I suggested the word collapse as it is stronger. Fall might mean that somebody is about to knock it down. Fall down it falls on it it's own cause and collapse it deteriorates or has be
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SokaDo we need to mention 'down'?
I would say yes. The "down" which is added doesn't really tell you the direction of falling. As you say, that meaning is already included in the word "fall". What "down" says is that the falling will continue to completion, when the falling cannot continue to happen anymore, and the wall will be (all the way) down. So it's
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