Squeeze up against
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Could you please, correct my sentences?
The children terrified were standing squeezing up against each other.
The terrified children were standing squeezing up against each other.
The children were terrified and standing squeezing up against each other.
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"Standing squeezing" sounds odd. The image is good, but it's almost as if grammar has collided with meaning. " That aside, you need commas in the first one: The children, terrified, were standing squeezing up against each other.
- "Standing squeezing" sounds odd.
- The image is good, but it's almost as if grammar has collided with meaning.
- " That aside, you need commas in the first one: The children, terrified, were standing squeezing up against each other.
- The last one is wrong because you are using "were" both as a main verb and an auxiliary verb at the same time.
- You would have to add a second "were" to be grammatical: The children were terrified and were standing squeezing up against each other.
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"Standing squeezing" sounds odd. The image is good, but it's almost as if grammar has collided with meaning. I would recast to separate the two words, maybe something like "The terrified children were standing in a knot, squeezing up against each other."
That aside, you need commas in the first one: The children, terrified, were standing squeezing up against each other. The last one is w
0The combination "standing squeezing up" is not tremendously natural to me. I think I would change it to "standing squeezed up".
The first sentence is not correct. If you want to put "terrified" in this position then you need commas around it (it is less usual than the word order of the second sentence).
Other than this, your sentences are OK.
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