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Stevenukd Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

Drive over speed limit

- Yesterday afternoon he was pulled over by a policeman because of riding / driving over speed limit, and he was fined 150 USD.

- Is this sentence grammatical?

Thanks very much to Teachers,

Stevenukd
  

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Stevenukd Yesterday afternoon he was pulled over by a policeman because of riding / driving over the speed limit, and he was fined 150 USD Yes, as corrected. But we'd normally write ... because he was driving over the speed limit ...

— CalifJim

  • Stevenukd Yesterday afternoon he was pulled over by a policeman because of riding / driving over the speed limit, and he was fined 150 USD Yes, as corrected.
  • But we'd normally write ...
  • because he was driving over the speed limit ...
  • fined $ 150.
  • CJ
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StevenukdYesterday afternoon he was pulled over by a policeman because of riding / driving over the speed limit, and he was fined 150 USD
Yes, as corrected. But we'd normally write ... because he was driving over the speed limit ... fined $150.
CJ
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Dear Teachers,

- What if he was riding a motorcycle? In that case I will say "...................because he was riding over the speed limit", right?
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Hi,
I almost always hear and say more simply '. . . because he was speeding' or ' . . . for speeding'.

It's shorter.

Clive
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The one and ONLY one time I had to have a conversation with a uniformed public servant about this issue, he said "Ma'am, the reason I pulled you over was that you were traveling in excess of the posted speed limit."

Now how much nicer sounding is that than "You were driving like a bat out of ****"?

If his phrasing hadn't been so polite, I would have said simply, "I was stoppped f
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StevenukdWhat if he was riding a motorcycle? In that case I will would say ...
I think I would still use driving.
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