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Moon7296 Posted 12 years ago
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Yesterday, in the town of Moore, Oklahoma, a bell, a prayer, a remembrance of 24 people killed by a tornado one year ago. It was an EF5, the most powerful classification of twister. It was a mile wide in some places, and it left a 17-mile long gash in the landscape. There were scenes of unbelievable destruction. Block after block where only foundations were visible.
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Q) I don't understand the last sentence. I think something is wrong there, in particular this part: "where only foundations were...."
The above is the transcription provided by CNN STUDENTS NEWS.
Sometimes, there're some errors in transcriptions from this as they're presumably extracted by computers or the like.
Q) I don't understand the last sentence. I think something is wrong there, in particular this part: "where only foundations were...."
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moon7296 Block after block where only foundations were visible. One could see many blocks of buildings where the buildings had blown away in the tornado and only the concrete foundations remained to be seen. Much of this story is written in sentence fragments, so don't expect a subject and verb in every word sequence that is punctuated as a sentence.
- moon7296 Block after block where only foundations were visible.
- One could see many blocks of buildings where the buildings had blown away in the tornado and only the concrete foundations remained to be seen.
- Much of this story is written in sentence fragments, so don't expect a subject and verb in every word sequence that is punctuated as a sentence.
- This last 'sentence' is an example.
- CJ
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moon7296Block after block where only foundations were visible.One could see many blocks of buildings where the buildings had blown away in the tornado and only the concrete foundations remained to be seen.
Much of this story is written in sentence fragments, so don't expect a subject and verb in every word sequence that is punctuated as a sentence.
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