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Vincent Teo Posted 17 years ago
Grammar
About the heavily rain
Can I say,
(a) It was raining heavily yesterday. Peter and his family were traveling to KLCC. Suddenly, a huge tree fell (down) and blocked the road (towards / to the town).
(b) There were many cars at the middle of the road. After a few minutes, the workers were cutting the branches of the tree that lay at the middle and blocked the road.
(c) The policemen came and directed the traffic. They tried to clear the jam. Some cars slowed down to watch the scene (of the incident).
(a) It was raining heavily yesterday. Peter and his family were traveling to KLCC. Suddenly, a huge tree fell (down) and blocked the road (towards / to the town).
(b) There were many cars at the middle of the road. After a few minutes, the workers were cutting the branches of the tree that lay at the middle and blocked the road.
(c) The policemen came and directed the traffic. They tried to clear the jam. Some cars slowed down to watch the scene (of the incident).
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(a) It rained heavily yesterday. Peter and his family were traveling to KLCC. Suddenly, a huge tree fell (down) and blocked the road to the town.
- (a) It rained heavily yesterday.
- Peter and his family were traveling to KLCC.
- Suddenly, a huge tree fell (down) and blocked the road to the town.
- (b) There were many cars on the road.
- After a few minutes, the workers cut the branches of the tree that lay across the middle of the road and blocked it.
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(a) It rained heavily yesterday. Peter and his family were traveling to KLCC. Suddenly, a huge tree fell (down) and blocked the road to the town.
(b) There were many cars on the road. After a few minutes, the workers cut the branches of the tree that lay across the middle of the road and blocked it.
(c) Policemen came and
(b) There were many cars on the road. After a few minutes, the workers cut the branches of the tree that lay across the middle of the road and blocked it.
(c) Policemen came and
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Thanks, I got question to ask:
(a) It was raining heavily yesterday.
(why don't we say "was raining"? )
(b) After a few minutes, the workers were cutting the branches of the tree that lay at the middle and blocked traffic. (can we use "blocked traffic"?)
(c) Some cars slowed down to watch the scene (of the incident).
(why don't we
(a) It was raining heavily yesterday.
(why don't we say "was raining"? )
(b) After a few minutes, the workers were cutting the branches of the tree that lay at the middle and blocked traffic. (can we use "blocked traffic"?)
(c) Some cars slowed down to watch the scene (of the incident).
(why don't we
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(a) It was raining heavily yesterday.
(why don't we say "was raining"?-- You can, but the simple past is better because it is a statement of a past condition, not a background concurrent to the whole story. )
(b) After a few minutes, the workers were cutting the branches of the tree that lay in the middle and blocked traffic. (can we use "blocked traffic"?)--
(why don't we say "was raining"?-- You can, but the simple past is better because it is a statement of a past condition, not a background concurrent to the whole story. )
(b) After a few minutes, the workers were cutting the branches of the tree that lay in the middle and blocked traffic. (can we use "blocked traffic"?)--
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