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Stevedi Posted 5 years ago
Grammar

Lines of people

- This morning I went to Walmart for some grocery shopping. There were two about 200-meter lines of people waiting to get into Walmart. I gave up and left.


Hello native speakers. Do these sentences sound natural in spoken English?


Thanks a lot in advance.

  

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stevedi Do these sentences sound natural in spoken English? Almost. I might make that "This morning I went to Walmart for some grocery shopping.

  • stevedi Do these sentences sound natural in spoken English?
  • Almost.
  • I might make that "This morning I went to Walmart for some grocery shopping.
  • There were two lines about 200 meters long waiting to get in.
  • "
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stevediDo these sentences sound natural in spoken English?

Almost. I might make that "This morning I went to Walmart for some grocery shopping. There were two lines about 200 meters long waiting to get in. I gave up and left."

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stevedinatural in spoken English

This morning I went to Walmart to do some grocery shopping, and you wouldn't believe the lines. There were two lines, and they wrapped all the way around the building. I took one look at that and gave up and left.


(I don't think people give estimates of the length of lines in meters in these situations. And bes

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