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[–] robocall@lemmy.world 34 points 2 years ago (2 children)

"some chocolate that fell on the ground"

[–] EherVielleicht@feddit.de 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Corrected, thx I am still learning.

[–] OhTheMoose@lemm.ee 18 points 2 years ago

All good! "Fell" is the past tense of "fall". Aternatively in some cases you could say "did fall", though in modern English that's usually used as an affirmative to a question about the fallen status of the chocolate (e.g. [which is short for the Latin "exemplia gratia" , meaning "for example"], Question: "Did the chocolate fall?" Answer: "Yes, the chocolate did fall" or "Yes, it did fall").

There are actually other (irrelevant) meanings of the word "fell"; as an adjective in "a fell beast" for example, "fell" means "fierce, cruel, terrible, or dreadful"; or as a verb meaning "to knock, strike, shoot, or cut down; cause to fall" for example " to fell a moose" or "to fell a tree."

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

the original makes sense if you read it in a Kentucky Fried internal monologue