Timeline for The Ball From A Cross
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| Jul 27, 2014 at 9:45 | comment | added | J.R.♦ | @meatie - You have been bothered by this for two months now. I'm afraid if you haven't caught on by now, I can't think of any other way to explain it. | |
| Jul 27, 2014 at 9:07 | comment | added | meatie | I am still bothered by this, though. An abstract verions of "the ball from a cross" would be "[an object] from [an action]", which suggests that the [action] has a hand in creating the [object]. | |
| May 31, 2014 at 11:05 | comment | added | J.R.♦ | Once again, that's a legitimate use of the word from. I might say it as: "The awning caught the man who fell from that push." | |
| May 31, 2014 at 10:02 | comment | added | meatie | Suppose a guy got pushed off a building by another person and landed on the awning of a store on the street level. Then this: "The awning caught the falling man from that push" would still be good English? | |
| May 31, 2014 at 9:35 | comment | added | J.R.♦ | Yes, that's perfectly acceptable English – particularly the preposition from. I might suggest changing the word push to pass (even though I understand a push pass can sometimes be referred to as simply a push). | |
| May 31, 2014 at 4:51 | comment | added | meatie | Supposed (still in the context of soccer or association football) a midfielder pushed the ball downfield with his foot. Then his forward teammate and an opposing defender both went for the ball. If write this: "The forward and defender both challenged for the ball FROM the midfielder's push." , would it be good English? | |
| May 31, 2014 at 4:12 | comment | added | J.R.♦ | I like that a little bit better, but not because "from" isn't an appropriate word. It's just the original is not all that well-written a sentence to begin with; it reads like something a sportswriter put together hurriedly in order to meet a deadline. | |
| May 31, 2014 at 3:00 | comment | added | meatie | Would "...he and Lineker both jumped for the ball after another Barnes cross..." be better than the original? | |
| May 30, 2014 at 16:47 | history | answered | J.R.♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |