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Title: Question for the grammar experts
Post by: Bentley Bullet on July 30, 2016, 07:26:42 am: Why do we go on a plane, on a boat, on a train, and on a bus, but go in a car and in a lorry?
Title: Re: Question for the grammar experts
Post by: idler on July 30, 2016, 07:58:23 am: You do go on BB.😉
Title: Re: Question for the grammar experts
Post by: jonnydog on July 30, 2016, 08:03:23 am: Quote from: idler on July 30, 2016, 07:58:23 am
You do go on BB.😉

... Does he? Or does he go IN??
Title: Re: Question for the grammar experts
Post by: idler on July 30, 2016, 08:07:59 am: Mmmmm.🤔
Title: Re: Question for the grammar experts
Post by: wilts rover on July 30, 2016, 08:43:29 am: If you are sitting on the bus....how do know if the wheels on the bus are going round and around?
Title: Re: Question for the grammar experts
Post by: Dutch Uncle on July 30, 2016, 08:52:33 am: I think it is just a conjunction of prepositions
Title: Re: Question for the grammar experts
Post by: IDM on July 30, 2016, 09:27:42 am: Grammar?

It's all relative isn't it?
Title: Re: Question for the grammar experts
Post by: scaley back rover on July 30, 2016, 09:44:37 am: I thought they were all relatives in Barnsley
Title: Re: Question for the grammar experts
Post by: Bentley Bullet on July 30, 2016, 10:11:22 am: Quote from: Dutch Uncle on July 30, 2016, 08:52:33 am
I think it is just a conjunction of prepositions

Is that like conjunctivitis?
Title: Re: Question for the grammar experts
Post by: idler on July 30, 2016, 12:38:34 pm: Maybe you board a bus, plane or boat but get into a car rather than board it.
These are services you pay a fare for. I know you can in a car as well but maybe that is the reason.
Title: Re: Question for the grammar experts
Post by: Colemans Left Hook on July 30, 2016, 01:05:40 pm: Quote from: idler on July 30, 2016, 12:38:34 pm
Maybe you board a bus, plane or boat but get into a car rather than board it.
These are services you pay a fare for. I know you can in a car as well but maybe that is the reason.

yepppp
you would board a charabang

so it seems size is everything -- thinking about it again "vertical height " might come into it

the phrase "one step beyond" comes to mind !!

so if there is at least one step "boarding" could be the order of the day

how are the "tablets" going Bentley I can lend you some of mine
Title: Re: Question for the grammar experts
Post by: The Red Baron on July 30, 2016, 01:15:19 pm: I guess the distinction is that buses, trains, planes are generally shared forms of transport. If I said "I arrived in a plane" you might think I'd flown it myself.
Title: Re: Question for the grammar experts
Post by: IDM on July 30, 2016, 01:58:58 pm: Quote from: The Red Baron on July 30, 2016, 01:15:19 pm
I guess the distinction is that buses, trains, planes are generally shared forms of transport. If I said "I arrived in a plane" you might think I'd flown it myself.

That or it's a euphemism!
Title: Re: Question for the grammar experts
Post by: RobTheRover on July 30, 2016, 08:11:21 pm: No, this is a euphamism

(http://www.jinyinmusic.com/UploadFiles/200810811032875.jpg)
Title: Re: Question for the grammar experts
Post by: RedJ on July 30, 2016, 10:16:30 pm: Is it rusty?
Title: Re: Question for the grammar experts
Post by: IDM on July 31, 2016, 09:49:16 am: Quote from: RobTheRover on July 30, 2016, 08:11:21 pm
No, this is a euphamism

(http://www.jinyinmusic.com/UploadFiles/200810811032875.jpg)

Especially if you have to blow it..
Title: Re: Question for the grammar experts
Post by: ravenrover on July 31, 2016, 04:20:10 pm: Quote from: wilts rover on July 30, 2016, 08:43:29 am
If you are sitting on the bus....how do know if the wheels on the bus are going round and around?
Because you are singing it at the same time as doing the actions.
Well at least we do when we have the granddaughter with us :lol:
Title: Re: Question for the grammar experts
Post by: darren61 on July 31, 2016, 04:26:18 pm: Quote from: ravenrover on July 31, 2016, 04:20:10 pm
Quote from: wilts rover on July 30, 2016, 08:43:29 am
If you are sitting on the bus....how do know if the wheels on the bus are going round and around?
Because the bus is moving?