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Cat fold 525 Posted 8 years ago
Vocabulary
Wreck
Two guys on a motorcycle were driving down the road. They came around this curve and wrecked.
"Wreck" is always followed by an object, as in " I wrecked my mother's car." But here, "they wrecked" seems very strange to me. How do you explain this structure "someone wrecks"?
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"To wreck" has long been intransitive in the context of shipwreck. It is a small step to the wreck of a land vehicle. I have no problem with its use there except that it sounds a mite informal. If I was learning English as a second language, I would wait until I was fully fluent before using it.
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