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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

When did this regain popularity

When I was elementary school, I was taught that the phrase fall ill or fell ill was unacceptabe. Now, I hear anchors and see it in print. When did this become accepetable?
  

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Hi, When I was elementary school, I was taught that the phrase fall ill or fell ill was unacceptabe. Now, I hear anchors and see it in print. When did this become accepetable ?

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Hi,

When I was elementary school, I was taught that the phrase fall ill or fell ill was unacceptabe. Now, I hear anchors and see it in print. When did this become accepetable?

I was never taught there was a problem with this. It seems like quite an old and well-established usage to me.

Were you also taught that 'fall asleep' wa