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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
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is this sentence grammatical?

Venice is composed of more than 100 small islands with a wide zigzag waterway as its avenue , and many other intercrossing narrow ones as its alleys.
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Venice is composed of more than 100 small islands with a wide zigzag waterway as its avenue , and many other intercrossing narrow ones as its alleys. Venice is composed of more than 100 small islands , with a wide zigzag waterway as its avenue no comma and many other intercrossing narrow ones as its alleys. I'd punctuate it thus.

— Clive

  • Venice is composed of more than 100 small islands with a wide zigzag waterway as its avenue , and many other intercrossing narrow ones as its alleys.
  • Venice is composed of more than 100 small islands , with a wide zigzag waterway as its avenue no comma and many other intercrossing narrow ones as its alleys.
  • I'd punctuate it thus.
  • Some dictionaries have the word 'intercross' with this meaning, and some don't.
  • Clive
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Venice is composed of more than 100 small islands with a wide zigzag waterway as its avenue , and many other intercrossing narrow ones as its alleys.

Venice is composed of more than 100 small islands, with a wide zigzag waterway as its avenue no comma and many other i
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