GIVE ANSWERS - English

CezaryB has an excellent explanation of DROP and FALL. For those of you learning to speak English, practice every day and try not to get discouraged. You'll get it. Honestly, you don't need to speak English exceptionally well to be understood. So just keep practicing.

However, those of us who have learned English as our native tongue still secretly curse the day they invented our unnecessarily complex language. Not convinced?

Money doesn't FALL from the sky. I DROPPED the money on the floor. The money FELL out of my pocket. Temperatures are expected to DROP within the hour and they will continue to FALL for the next few days.

I can go on and on and on..........

You can use drop to show that someone dropped something, but you can't use fall in the same way.

Fall is without an object.
Drop is either with an object or without.

The book fell. ...I made the book fall is the only way to include an object.
Whereas ...the book fell... or .....the book dropped... is fine.

I like to think of it has, he dropped to the floor, suggesting he was standing or not at a very tall position above the ground.

Falling would be, the sky is falling, meaning there is a greater height involved and the person/object is falling at a great height and speed.

Also drop is a sudden change in height where fall is a distrastic and gradual change in height.

The difference between “drop” and “fall”
”Drop” can be either a deliberate or unintended action, whereas ”fall” suggests an unintentional or accidental action. ”Drop” suggests something being released from a higher position, whereas ”fall” suggests something moving from a higher to a lower position on its own.

Drop is followed by an objective , so you can't say "I dropped" but rather say "sorry I dropped the ball"
On the other hand . you can end a sentence with (Fall) - it doesn't require an objective- . you could say " She gave me that look and I Fell in love" or "The dam has fallen"

A human, an ape, a dog, for instance, drops something. But an apple falls from a tree.

Some slang:

"Drop it!" = cease/conclude/end s.t.
"Drop dead!" = a very firm "no" response.
"Fall back" = move away/stand down/return to a former stance.