"commit a fault" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It means to make a mistake or error. Example: The company's CEO committed a grave fault when he failed to disclose important financial information to the shareholders.
A recent ethics committee decision, made public on October 28, stated that the newly appointed police ethics commissioner had concluded after reviewing the case that it would be "impossible to meet the burden of proof, that is to present clear and convicting evidence that each officer summoned had committed a fault in accordance to each charge".
You score a point whenever you successfully serve the shuttlecock and your opposing team commits a fault, which means that the team fails to appropriately return the shuttlecock.
A TV replay showed Roddick did commit a foot fault – but with his left foot.
Andreev committed a double fault to lose the tie breaker, and Davydenko dropped his serve in the opening game of the second set.
When Dominique Strauss-Kahn admitted on French television in 2011 that he had committed a "moral fault" during his sexual encounter with a hotel maid in New York, Mr. Hefez was asked by a French newspaper to analyze the performance: He found it less than convincing.
At the time, he was managing director of the mighty International Monetary Fund, and was widely expected to quit in order to run for the French presidency in 2012.Mr Strauss-Kahn always denied using violence in the hotel room, but confessed to having committed a "moral fault".
"No one committed a real fault or negligence," says another witness, neurologist Yves Agid, who was formerly in charge of monitoring CJD cases in France and is scientific director at the Institute of Brain and Spinal Cord Disorders here.
The system unsettled Park, and Feng won two minutes after its introduction in the match when Park committed a service fault.
If the serving team serves and the receiving side commits a fault, then the serving team moves from one service court to the other and continues to serve.
If the serving side commits a fault, then the receiving side gets a point and the serve shifts to that side.
