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FLEEFLY

Common Stumbling Blocks - Peculiar Constructions - Misused Forms. These are two separate verbs and must not be interchanged. The principal parts of flee are flee, fled, fled; those of fly are fly, flew, flown. To flee is generally used in the meaning of getting out of danger. To fly means to soar as a bird. To say of a man "He has flown from the place" is wrong; it should be "He has fled from the place." We can say with propriety that "A bird has flown from the place." Next: THROUGHTHROUGHOUT Previous: THIS MUCHTHUS MUCH Report Privacy SHARE BOOKMARK

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