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Onizo Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Landed upside down

A jeep has fellen from somewhere high up and now is landed on the ground upside down. How to describe the position, look, and action of the car well as I have stated a little, which I am not sure if correctly expressed.

1. The car has crash landed upside down.
2. The car turned over upside down.
3. The car tumbled down and landed upside down.
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onizo A J eep has fallen If from a mountain road, the car would lose control, careen down the mountainside (out of control), perhaps tumble when the speed increased, and finish with its wheels in the air. If instead it drove off an upper level parking lot, it might soar downward, making a gradual turn (due to weight distribution) and make landfall upside down. The expression ‘crash-landed’ is mostly for flying vehicles, like planes.

— Wilpeter

  • onizo A J eep has fallen If from a mountain road, the car would lose control, careen down the mountainside (out of control), perhaps tumble when the speed increased, and finish with its wheels in the air.
  • If instead it drove off an upper level parking lot, it might soar downward, making a gradual turn (due to weight distribution) and make landfall upside down.
  • The expression ‘crash-landed’ is mostly for flying vehicles, like planes.
  • If the car had been travelling at the time and ‘rolled’ when it went out of control, the second suggestion describes how it might end up.
  • The third sentence best describes the fall (the words down and landed) and how it ended up.
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onizoA Jeep has fallen
If from a mountain road, the car would lose control, careen down the mountainside (out of control), perhaps tumble when the speed increased, and finish with its wheels in the air.
If instead it drove off an upper level parking lot, it might soar downward, making a gradual turn (due to weight distribution)
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The jeep has fallen over the [embankment / cliff] and (has) landed upside down.

("landed" means it's on the ground, so there's no good reason to say "on the ground".)

CJ
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