The chicken may have crossed the road, but did so by walking across it.
Incorrect: The chicken ran acrossed the road.
Correct: The chicken ran across the road.
Across, Acrossed, and Cross
Across is a preposition. It describes the relationship between two persons, places, or things. It is sometimes used with the preposition from.
Example: That house is across the street.Cross is most commonly a verb or noun. As a verb, it means "to go or place across." As a noun, it means "an object made of two intersecting segments."
So why did the chicken cross the road?
They are crossing because the road is for chicken crossing.
ReplyDeleteChong,
ReplyDeleteActually this riddle is a common joke that was popular years ago. The answer is
The chicken crossed the road because it wanted to get to the other side.
There are now many more jokes on the same theme, and even video games, and funny signs like the one above.