The airplane is headed to England.

[tufguy]

Question: Where are you headed?

1) We are headed to the USA.
2) The airplane is headed to England.
3) We are headed south.
4) We are headed to school.

Are these answers correct?

 

[emsr2d2]

@tufguy - I have improved your thread title. You really should know after all these years that a one-word title is not sufficient. Thread titles must be unique and contain whole phrases or sentences that you're asking us to look at.

I think those answers are acceptable in AmE, although one of our AmE speakers will be able to confirm. However, BrE rarely uses "headed" that way. I would say:

Where are you going?/Where are you heading?

1. I'm going/heading to the USA.
2. The aeroplane/plane is heading for England.
3. We're going/heading south.
4. We're going to/heading for school.

 

[Tdol]

With the second, headed works if you are describing a flight you are not on.

 

[tufguy]

@tufguy - I have improved your thread title. You really should know after all these years that a one-word title is not sufficient. Thread titles must be unique and contain whole phrases or sentences that you're asking us to look at.

I think those answers are acceptable in AmE, although one of our AmE speakers will be able to confirm. However, BrE rarely uses "headed" that way. I would say:

Where are you going?/Where are you heading?

1. I'm going/heading to the USA.
2. The aeroplane/plane is heading for England.
3. We're going/heading south.
4. We're going to/heading for school.

So it is not correct to say " We are headed to the USA" or "We are headed south"?

Why did you use "To" in the first sentence and "For" in the last?

 

[Tarheel]

So it is not correct to say "We are headed to the USA" or "We are headed south"?

No, it is. When are you coming?

 

[tufguy]

No, it is. When are you coming?

In order to come back I need to leave first. I just wrote these I am not going to the USA or England.

 

[emsr2d2]

So it Is it not correct to say "We are headed to the USA" or "We are headed south"?

Why did you use "to" in the first sentence and "for" in the last?

Note my corrections above. You really should have learnt how to construct a question by now.

I simply used the preposition that sounds most natural to me.

 

[emsr2d2]

In order to come back, I need to leave first. I just wrote these. I am not going to the USA or England.

Who said anything about coming back? (Tarheel was joking. We didn't think you were really coming to visit any of us!)

 

[probus]

@tufguy: All four are fine in AmE.

 

[Tarheel]

I just wrote these. I am not going to the USA or England.

Sorry. That was an attempt at humor.

 

[probus]

Sorry. That was an attempt at humor.

As the Smiley clearly indicated.

 

[tufguy]

Sorry. That was an attempt at humor.

Sorry, I wasn't angry. I knew you were joking. I just wanted to inform you that I wasn't going anywhere. Sorry if you felt that I was mad at you.

 

[tufguy]

Who said anything about coming back? (Tarheel was joking. We didn't think you were really coming to visit any of us!)

Sorry, I wasn't trying to be rude. I just wanted to inform you.

 

[tufguy]

With the second, headed works if you are describing a flight you are not on.

Sorry, I don't understand. Could you please elaborate?

 

[emsr2d2]

Sorry, I wasn't angry. I knew you were joking. I just wanted to inform you that I wasn't going anywhere. Sorry if you felt that I was mad at you.

Sorry, I wasn't trying to be rude. I just wanted to inform you.

No one thought you were angry, mad (in AmE, those two words mean the same) or rude. We just thought that you had misunderstood Tarheel's post and that you thought he really thought you were travelling somewhere.