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Which of these sentences sound best:
a) "The fish were stored, and sent off to the market."
b) "The fish were stored, and driven to the market."
c) "The fish were stored, and forwarded to the market."
Note: And I say 'stored', I mean from a boat.
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Christine Christie And I say 'stored', I mean from a boat. That sounds like a wrong word. The fish might have been unloaded from the boat, or packed in ice, or put on trucks, or boxed, etc.
- Christine Christie And I say 'stored', I mean from a boat.
- That sounds like a wrong word.
- The fish might have been unloaded from the boat, or packed in ice, or put on trucks, or boxed, etc.
- In any event, they have to get off the boat.
- But that aside ….
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Christine ChristieAnd I say 'stored', I mean from a boat.
That sounds like a wrong word. The fish might have been unloaded from the boat, or packed in ice, or put on trucks, or boxed, etc. In any event, they have to get off the boat. But that aside ….
Christine Christiea) "The fish were stored, and sent off to the market."
0Christine ChristieWhich of these sentences sound best
a) — but no comma, please. There is no explicit second subject.
I don't think 'off' adds anything.
I should mention that there is something contradictory about both storing (keeping in the same place) and also sending (moving to a different place).
Maybe you meant something more like
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