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User_gary Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

The car derailed from the road, the card bumped at me

He was walking along the road when the car derailed from the road and dashed/bumped at him. He died on the spot with shriek.
In a crowd place, the boys brush/bump at girls to get some pleasures.
I was walking down the ground when the boy, who was running fast towards me, dashed at me and I fell back on the ground.

Please correct my sentences and provide me with better versions if necessary.
  

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User_gary He was walking along the road when the car derailed from the road and dashed/bumped at him. He died on the spot with shriek. In a crowd place, the boys brush/bump at girls to get some pleasures.

  • User_gary He was walking along the road when the car derailed from the road and dashed/bumped at him.
  • He died on the spot with shriek.
  • In a crowd place, the boys brush/bump at girls to get some pleasures.
  • I was walking down the ground when the boy, who was running fast towards me, dashed at me and I fell back on the ground.
  • Please correct my sentences and provide me with better versions if necessary.
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User_garyHe was walking along the road when the car derailed from the road and dashed/bumped at him. He died on the spot with shriek.

In a crowd place, the boys brush/bump at girls to get some pleasures.
I was walking down the ground when the boy, who was running fast towards me, dashed at me and I fell back on the ground.

Please correct my sentences
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Additional comments:
Trains ride on rails, and can derail. A car is on a road. Do not say it derails.

If a car hits someone hard enough to kill someone, it did not "bump" him. It hit him or crashed into him. "Dash" is not the right word here at all.

Shriek is a high-pitched yell that you usually associate with a frightened woman or girls between the ages of 3 and 7 who use i
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Thanks a lot Grammar Greek.

I often see the phrase "walking down the road" around, so here I replaced the road with "garden", not ground sorry.

And you mean we can say "bump into someone" to mean "to hit someone's body accidentally". So, can I replace the last sentence "bumped into me" instead of "crashed into me"?

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