Timeline for Why "hung it from a tree" and not "hung it on a tree"
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| Jan 23, 2018 at 10:11 | vote | accept | Maksim | ||
| Jan 22, 2018 at 14:08 | comment | added | Davo | One would hang a string of lights on a tree (if they went around or through), or from a tree (if they simply hung down (away from ) the tree). | |
| Jan 22, 2018 at 14:00 | comment | added | BoldBen | @kris The same way you'd hang a hat on a hook. In other words you would place it so that the end of a branch was inside the object and only part of the object was suspended below the branch. If I hung a pair of shoes from a tree by their laces the shoes would be swinging free and only the laces (which aren't part of the shoes) would be touching the tree. | |
| Jan 22, 2018 at 10:27 | comment | added | Kris | -1 Just tell us how you would hang something on a tree. | |
| Jan 22, 2018 at 9:36 | answer | added | user 66974 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jan 22, 2018 at 9:32 | comment | added | user 66974 | Both “hung on a tree and from a tree” are commonly used: books.google.com/ngrams/… | |
| Jan 22, 2018 at 9:30 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | I'd say size and 'swinging potential' matter. We hung the bauble on the tree. They hung the swing from the tree. | |
| Jan 22, 2018 at 9:17 | comment | added | Kate Bunting | There is no rule that I know of. "Hang something on something" and "hang something from something" mean much the same thing as far as I can tell. | |
| Jan 22, 2018 at 8:56 | history | edited | Mari-Lou A | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
fixed title (missing pronoun) and wrote citation (for search purposes) , made image smaller too
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| Jan 22, 2018 at 8:49 | review | First posts | |||
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| Jan 22, 2018 at 8:47 | history | asked | Maksim | CC BY-SA 3.0 |