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Time flies or time flys



 
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Expression: "To give someone a last trade" | why do you say " be at sixes and sevens?"
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Time flies or time flys #1 (permalink) Thu Oct 25, 2007 11:29 am   Time flies or time flys		  
Sorry if this seems a silly question but a friend and I seem to have tangled ourselves up in this one. Im 99% sure im right but...if you want to say "Time flies when you're having fun" Is is correct to use "flies" over "flys"? If you however say "we are flying at 35,000ft" why cant you simply add an "s" to "fly"? Shocked
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Time flies or time flys #2 (permalink) Thu Oct 25, 2007 12:20 pm   Time flies or time flys		  
mikesz wrote:
Sorry if this seems a silly question but a friend and I seem to have tangled ourselves up in this one. Im 99% sure im right but...if you want to say "Time flies when you're having fun" Is is correct to use "flies" over "flys"? If you however say "we are flying at 35,000ft" why cant you simply add an "s" to "fly"? Shocked

No, we cannot do that.
fly - flies
ply - plies
dry - dries
cry - cries
try - tries

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Time flies or time flys #3 (permalink) Thu Oct 25, 2007 12:37 pm   Time flies or time flys		  
Thought so! Many thanks indeed!!
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