Can you tell more about the words used after fell. For example. In the sentence
The plan fell __ for the want of support.
What do we use?
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1As an aside, it's slightly more common and idiomatic to say for want of rather than for the want of.– stangdonCommented Mar 9, 2017 at 13:10
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You can use an NGram wildcard search to get some ideas... books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=fell+*+for&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t2%3B%2Cfell%20%2A%20for%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bfell%20asleep%20for%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bfell%20silent%20for%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bfell%20back%20for%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bfell%20fighting%20for%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bfell%20in%20for%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bfell%20down%20for%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bfell%20through%20for%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bfell%20out%20for%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bfell%20them%20for%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bfell%20trees%20for%3B%2Cc0– JavaLatteCommented Mar 9, 2017 at 15:09
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The plan fell through for the want of support.
Fall through: to not be completed, or not happen
Example:
Our plans fell through because of lack of money.
See more phrasal verbs on the same source: Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary.
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I approved the tag edit, but I don't know if I would have deleted the "prepositions" tag. Perhaps learners who search for prepositions may not know to search for phrasal verbs? Commented Mar 9, 2017 at 11:46
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@TeacherKSHuang: In the phrasal verb 'fall through', the particle is an adverb, not a preposition. Searching for prepositions and ending up in here would be misleading.– MoriCommented Mar 9, 2017 at 14:26
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Sorry, @Mori, I had not been thinking. I had meant that we should also tag it as an adverb, but I see now that it had already been tagged as such. Commented Mar 10, 2017 at 8:02
The plan fell flat for the want of support.
Source: follow the link in Mori's answer.
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2Please edit to include an explanation of why this is correct; answers without explanation do not teach the patterns of the language well. See the Submitting Answers that merely answer the question discussion on meta. Commented Mar 9, 2017 at 12:24
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@NathanTuggy: To google for a list of idioms starting with "fall" is what the questioner should have done in the first place so I'm reluctant, to say the least. Commented Mar 9, 2017 at 14:19
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1If you discover that you should not have answered, save others the trouble of deleting your answer, please. Commented Mar 9, 2017 at 19:55
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Please remember that many of the users here may not be able to easily search in English and may be uncertain what to search in the first place. Writing half-hearted answers to questions you feel are lazy is not helpful to them or to any users who may come along in the future.– CatijaCommented Mar 9, 2017 at 21:41