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Callum Posted 16 years ago
Grammar
Warning to foreigners about the verb to shoot
This is farely advanced
Me and some freinds have been discussing this for a while.
Its probably one of the fewer used verbs in everyday talking but it has a very strange irregularity to it in the past tense when it is plural.
I fired some shots.
So to avoid sounding very strange to english people if you ever said this it is best to change it to.
I fired some bullets
Note: do not say " I shot some bullets " although it is correct, but it has a different meaning because then you are saying you shot at bullets on the floor or something.
Me and some freinds have been discussing this for a while.
Its probably one of the fewer used verbs in everyday talking but it has a very strange irregularity to it in the past tense when it is plural.
I fired some shots.
So to avoid sounding very strange to english people if you ever said this it is best to change it to.
I fired some bullets
Note: do not say " I shot some bullets " although it is correct, but it has a different meaning because then you are saying you shot at bullets on the floor or something.
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Callum Its probably one of the fewer used verbs in everyday talking but it has a very strange irregularity to it in the past tense when it is plural. I fired some shots. The word "shot" can be the past tense of "shoot" (as in "I shot a man dead") or it can be a noun (as in "A shot rang out").
- Callum Its probably one of the fewer used verbs in everyday talking but it has a very strange irregularity to it in the past tense when it is plural.
- I fired some shots.
- The word "shot" can be the past tense of "shoot" (as in "I shot a man dead") or it can be a noun (as in "A shot rang out").
- As a noun, it means the act of firing a gun or the missile that is fired.
- In "I fired some shots", the word "shots" is the plural of the noun.
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Callum
Its probably one of the fewer used verbs in everyday talking but it has a very strange irregularity to it in the past tense when it is plural.
I fired some shots.
The word "shot" can be the past tense of "shoot" (as in "I shot a man dead") or it can be a noun (as in "A shot rang out"). As a noun, it means the act of firi
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