Catch a Taxi

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Words - "catch" vs. "take" a bus/train

Another thing, you take a coach at a certain place: "but you take the shuttle to Coventry on Smith Street," but you take the shuttle from one place: "From Smith Street, you can take the coach to Coventry."

Get a cab" and VS get a cab?

What's the big deal between "he took a cab" and "he took a cab"? The use of catch emphasises the activity of calling (fetching) the taxi. I' d "catch" if it was hard to get a taxi, but I' d use "take" if it was a straightforward thing (many cabs are available, so it' s straightforward to get one).

Personally, I would say yes, but more precisely, catching a taxi may sound like calling a taxi, but taking a taxi would be better if it were a taxi you ordered, for example to your house or byphone.

take a cab home

All I was asking was if you'd say, "Take a taxi home," "Mark a taxi home," etc.? I said something like, "I have to take a taxi to get home. "I' m gonna have to take a shuttle home." Nothing I know about American English. We' d say in BE, "I have to take a taxi home." Or "I have to take the coach home."

We' d leave out the for, too. We would take (or take, or fetch) a taxi home. Nothing I know about American English. We' d say in BE, "I have to take a cab home." Or "I have to take the coach home." In BE, wouldn't you say, "get on a buss home"?

In BE, wouldn't you say, "get on a buss home"? In BE, wouldn't you say, "get on a buss home"? The Beverly Cleary is an American. And Parla's from New York and said you'd give up "for" in a cab. The Beverly Cleary is an American. And Parla's from New York and said you'd give up "for" in a cab.

This also applies to aircraft, boats, ships, rafts, jitneys, pedicabins, rickshaws, sedan chairs, dog sledges, helicopters, gliders, travos, bobsleds, carriages, stagecoaches or howdahs. When you get it, catch it or take it and go home, you don't need the for.