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Anonymous Posted 5 years ago
Grammar

Smashing/crashing/bursting through the glass

He was walking down a corridor of glass offices when a masked man came smashing/crashing/bursting through the glass from inside one of the offices and shoved him through the glass wall on the other side.


1) Which one of "smashing", "crashing", and "bursting" sound better here if it's a deliberate action?

2) Is the sentence OK?

  

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anonymous 2) Is the sentence OK? Yes, and the only verb that sounds right to me is "crashing" though there's nothing grammatically wrong with the others. CJ

  • anonymous 2) Is the sentence OK?
  • Yes, and the only verb that sounds right to me is "crashing" though there's nothing grammatically wrong with the others.
  • CJ
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anonymous2) Is the sentence OK?

Yes, and the only verb that sounds right to me is "crashing" though there's nothing grammatically wrong with the others.

CJ

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