At the corner / at a corner
A: A car entered the intersection and bumped into the corner of the street. In the accident 4 children playing with skateboards were killed.
B: A car entered the intersection and bumped into a corner of the street, where 4 children were playing with skateboards.
Are both sentences correct?
Top answer
Unfortunately, neither sentence is correct. One cannot "bump into the corner" of a street. What you are trying to describe sounds like: A car started to enter the intersection and jumped the sidewalk killing four children on skateboards.
- Unfortunately, neither sentence is correct.
- One cannot "bump into the corner" of a street.
- What you are trying to describe sounds like: A car started to enter the intersection and jumped the sidewalk killing four children on skateboards.
- or A car started to enter the intersection and jumped the sidewalk killing four children who were playing on skateboards.
- Instead of "jumped the sidewalk" you could use "ran over the sidewalk" or "drove onto the sidewalk"
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Unfortunately, neither sentence is correct. One cannot "bump into the corner" of a street. What you are trying to describe sounds like:
A car started to enter the intersection and jumped the sidewalk killing four children on skateboards.
or
A car started to enter the intersection and jumped the sidewalk killing four children who were playing on skateboards.
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