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I was thinking about the word flee and became stuck on the past participle...I can say I will flee, I am fleeing, I am about to flee etc but was unable to come up with the past version...the best I could think of was I have fleeed which, although it looks rather good, probably isn't right...I think I probably do know the past participle but cannot remember it at this present moment in time (arghhh!) wonder if any of you can remember what I cannot!
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Flown?
I fly, I flew, I have flown many times???
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Dang, tsuwm--I finally know something, and you beat me to it!  
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flew, flown, fled all are correct I'm surprised Bex had to ask or was he just testing us. I'd better fade away now 
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flew, flown, fled all are correct
The simple past and past participle of the verb to flee iare fled; the simple past of the verb to fly is flew and its past participle is flown. Two different and distinct sets of forms.
Interestingly, both verbs flee and fly are homonyms of nouns representing insects fly and flea.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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I think the confusion might come from the fact that fly is often used metaphorically for flee.
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 Thanks! It was really beginning to annoy me how I couldn't remember it! (although I did rather like fleeed ) Fled it is then... To flea or not to flea. That is the question...
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(although I did rather like fleeed ) I cut my finger and bleeed all over the place. I hope I don't blee any more. Peter
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The simple past and past participle of the verb to flee iare fled; the simple past of the verb to fly is flew and its past participle is flown. Two different and distinct sets of forms.
Interestingly, both verbs flee and fly are homonyms of nouns representing insects fly and flea.
ah...seems it was more complicated than I first thought.
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seems it was more complicated than I first thought.
The flea fled, and the fly flew.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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A flea and a fly in a flue
Were imprisoned, so what could they do?
Said the fly, "let us flee!"
"Let us fly!" said the flea.
So they flew through a flaw in the flue.
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Not mine. I remembered it from time back way back, googled it, and stole it.
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It sure fit right in with all the discussion of
flew, flea, flown,fly and the rest. Nice contribution, then.
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Once upon a time, here, we discussed flied being a verb.
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As in "the bug flied into the wall" ??
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that would make him a 'high flier' then maybe!
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As in "Pujols flied out to left field." The linguistic explanation is that this is not an extension of the verb fly but a verbing of the fly as in fly ball.
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Death of a Fly
Fly see saucer
fly fly down
me see fly fly
fly walk round
fly take big sip
me take spoon
fly look wrong way
spoon go BOOM
cup go wobble
tea go splat
fly look wrong way
fly got flat
fly not fly now
fly not sip
fly just flied on final trip
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As in "Pujols flied out to left field." The linguistic explanation is that this is not an extension of the verb fly but a verbing of the fly as in fly ball. They actually used "flied" in that sense??
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"Hrbek flied out to left field."
yes, this sounds perfekly normal to anyone who's ever listened to much baseball talk. just try some alternatives:
Mauer flew out to right field last time up.
Williams has flown out to center field in all three at-bats today.
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"Hrbek flied out to left field."
Yup, I have heard this one. Thanks.
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Flying circus  Or:"Hrbek flied out to right field." Like Bex's Poem too.
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Now that's a funny one. Thanks Bran.
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Death of a Fly I love it! Thanks for posting this.
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yes...great picture, Bran
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just got this in email....
JAMES (age 4)was listening to a Bible story. His dad read: 'The man named Lot was warned to take his wife and flee out of the city but his wife looked back and was turned to salt.' Concerned, James asked: 'What happened to the flea?'
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Death of a Fly
Fly see saucer
fly fly down
me see fly fly
fly walk round
fly take big sip
me take spoon
fly look wrong way
spoon go BOOM
cup go wobble
tea go splat
fly look wrong way
fly got flat
fly not fly now
fly not sip
fly just flied on final trip It is a good one Bex....yours or borrowed??
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just got this in email....
JAMES (age 4)was listening to a Bible story. His dad read: 'The man named Lot was warned to take his wife and flee out of the city but his wife looked back and was turned to salt.' Concerned, James asked: 'What happened to the flea?' Out of the mouths of children.
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to take his wife and flee out of the city
The Bible and church songs were always a good source of all kinds of funny misinterpretations I remember. While the text was about "require of" I understood it as "ice cream".
(confusing 'eis' with 'ijs'; the sound being exactly the same for both words).
The ice cream promised was never offered. ha!
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Faldage, you going to add your 2+ Gladly?
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Faldage, you going to add your 2+ Gladly? Huh? Gladly the cross-eyed bear?
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to take his wife and flee out of the city
The Bible and church songs were always a good source of all kinds of funny misinterpretations I remember. While the text was about "require of" I understood it as "ice cream".
(confusing 'eis' with 'ijs'; the sound being exactly the same for both words).
The ice cream promised was never offered. ha! Many children's misinterpretations float around here on the 'net. They are often very funny.
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Gladly the cross-eyed bear? 'Deed and indeed; nicely caught!
Edit: whoa, a better catch than I realized--that was supposed to be 2¢, not 2+. [smacking self e]
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Luke, I borrowed it from a comic verse collection for children...not sure if I got all the words right, I'll check later. It came into my head as I was reading about the flea/fly comments. Sadly that is probably the only poem I can still remember almost word for word...possibly because of its simplicity! I don't have as much time to read poems any more...
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Sadly memorizing poetry is pretty much in a disappearing
act in today's schools. I know of none where it is used
as a technique of learning. (Probably the same with
multiplication tables, but on that I am not too sure.)
Funny how we remember poems like that, and others we
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