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Silak12 Posted 7 years ago
Grammar

They fell one upon the other?

They all fell one......the other.

A: on

B: upon

C: above

D: over

I think the correct option is "B". What do you think which one is correct and why?

Thanks!

  

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I expected "E: after". The choices you have are not usual, and I can't choose between them. It would depend on the meaning you want.

  • I expected "E: after".
  • The choices you have are not usual, and I can't choose between them.
  • It would depend on the meaning you want.
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I expected "E: after". The choices you have are not usual, and I can't choose between them. It would depend on the meaning you want.

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silak12I think the correct option is "B". What do you think which one is correct and why?

It's "B", but only because "fell one upon the other" is almost a fixed phrase.

Google Ngrams Viewer found very few examples of the phrase "fell one on the other", but it found a lot of examples of "fell one upon the other".

Google found only 35 examples of

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