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Inggris Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary

Shipped or ships

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/sp.html?mp=&oid=&s=A3L0BDM3R6MVOB&t=shipping

"1. Your tracking number(s) will be emailed to you through Amazon and will be posted to your Amazon Account within 1 business day of when your item ships, if not sooner. You will receive this email when your order ships."

a) ..... when your item ships. (the item doesn't ship by itself)
b) ..... when your item is shipped. (the item is shipped by air or water, for example)

Which one is correct?Emotion: thinking
  

Top answer

“To ship” is a transitive or intransitive verb meaning to send. Both are grammatically correct. I suspect that when shipping changed from sailboats to motor-driven vessels, the verb ‘sail’ had to either change or survive (sink or swim, so to speak), and it became ‘ship’ to cover the various sources of power that ocean-bound vessels used.

— Wilpeter

  • “To ship” is a transitive or intransitive verb meaning to send.
  • Both are grammatically correct.
  • I suspect that when shipping changed from sailboats to motor-driven vessels, the verb ‘sail’ had to either change or survive (sink or swim, so to speak), and it became ‘ship’ to cover the various sources of power that ocean-bound vessels used.
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“To ship” is a transitive or intransitive verb meaning to send. Both are grammatically correct. I suspect that when shipping changed from sailboats to motor-driven vessels, the verb ‘sail’ had to either change or survive (sink or swim, so to speak), and it became ‘ship’ to cover the various sources of power that ocean-bound vessels used.
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inggrisWhich one is correct?
Both are correct. Amazon's usage is correct.

See definition #11
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/ship
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