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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Grammar
Drive over
How would you correctly write this please?
This women was grocery shopping and drove her car over my toe.
Thank you
This women was grocery shopping and drove her car over my toe.
Thank you
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Anonymous How would you correctly write this please? This wom a n was grocery shopping and drove her car t over my toe. I think you mean "cart", not "car".
- Anonymous How would you correctly write this please?
- This wom a n was grocery shopping and drove her car t over my toe.
- I think you mean "cart", not "car".
- At least I've never heard of shopping for groceries in a car.
- Your sentence is OK as corrected, but I'd probably write something like this: While I was at the grocery store, this woman (accidentally?
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Anonymous How would you correctly write this please? This woman was grocery shopping and drove her cart over my toe.I think you mean "cart", not "car". At least I've never heard of shopping for groceries in a car.
Your sentence is OK as corrected, but I'd probably write someth
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When I am at the grocery store, I push my cart.
But for disabled people, the store provides one-person electric vehicles that they can sit in and drive around the aisles to do their shopping.
But for disabled people, the store provides one-person electric vehicles that they can sit in and drive around the aisles to do their shopping.
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CalifJimWhile I was at the grocery store, this woman (accidentally? / purposely?) drove her shopping cart over my toe.I agree with CalifJim but would add:
At a grocery store a cart is understood to be a shopping cart, even if powered (what I call a scooter cart):
When I w
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SoSaysSunnyA buggy is another name for a shopping cart.I think that is a regionalism.
I would not use the verb "drive" with a push cart. I would have said this:
The woman ran over my toes with her shopping cart.
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