What does down mean?

[nganguyen]

English Grammar Tests, Elementary Level

ESL/EFL Test #53 "Elementary Adjectives", question 8

What goes up must come ..........

(a) over
(b) down
(c) nice
(d) left

English Grammar Tests, Elementary Level

ESL/EFL Test #53 "Elementary Adjectives", answer 8

What goes up must come down.

Correct answer: (b) down

Your answer was: incorrect
What goes up must come over.
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what does the mean of sentence when we use the adj "down".

Ths and BR.

nganguyen

[Alan]

Hi,

If you throw a ball into the air, it will fall/come down on to the ground.

Alan
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[Shustrik]

Interesting test question!!!

thx for the explanation!

[Kati Svaby]

Is this a Murphy's law ?
K.S.

[Esl_Expert]

Hi Kati,

Technically, there is only one "Murphy's Law", and it is typically stated this way:

- Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.

Murphy's Law refers to things going wrong. This expression is often used when a number of things have gone wrong that do NOT usually go wrong in similar circumstances.

The expression in the test refers (directly or figuratively) to the Law of Gravity. Alan gave an example of a ball. The fact that a ball falls back to the ground after being thrown into the air is not an example of Murphy's Law. It is normal, and not at all unexpected. The fact that the ball comes down again is not a problem. The ball always comes back to the ground, because of gravity.

Thus, the sense of the expression in the test might be viewed as being the opposite of Murphy's Law.
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