Is this OK?
A van pulls off the main road and starts driving toward the company building.
Hi. I was told that "vans can't drive", but is it OK to write it like this anyway? If not, how would you write it instead?
Thank you.
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anonymous I was told that "vans can't drive" That's true, and they can't pull off a main road either. I think we can allow some slack here, however, because without "pulls off" and "starts driving" the sentence falls apart for lack of verbs. This appears to come from some creative writing, a short story perhaps.
- anonymous I was told that "vans can't drive" That's true, and they can't pull off a main road either.
- I think we can allow some slack here, however, because without "pulls off" and "starts driving" the sentence falls apart for lack of verbs.
- This appears to come from some creative writing, a short story perhaps.
- In any case, it's clear that it's not destined to end up in a scientific journal.
- Much creative writing has references even more oblique than this one, so I don't think it's unreasonable to keep it just as you wrote it.
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anonymous I was told that "vans can't drive"
That's true, and they can't pull off a main road either.
I think we can allow some slack here, however, because without "pulls off" and "starts driving" the sentence falls apart for lack of verbs.
This appears to come from some creative writing, a short story perhaps. In any case, it's clear that it'
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