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Cyclist mows down a child, blames the child and clears off.
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Cyclist mows down a child, blames the child and clears off.
On 29/11/2016 16:43, MrCheerful wrote:
https://www.hackneycitizen.co.uk/201...oke-newington/ QUOTE: An 11-year-old schoolboy suffered a nasty shoulder injury after he was clattered by a cyclist as he crossed Wordsworth Road on his way to school last week. ENDQUOTE Sympathies to the child. What is this "clattered", used as a transitive verb? |
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Cyclist mows down a child, blames the child and clears off.
On 30.11.2016 07:11, JNugent wrote:
On 29/11/2016 16:43, MrCheerful wrote: https://www.hackneycitizen.co.uk/201...oke-newington/ QUOTE: An 11-year-old schoolboy suffered a nasty shoulder injury after he was clattered by a cyclist as he crossed Wordsworth Road on his way to school last week. ENDQUOTE Sympathies to the child. What is this "clattered", used as a transitive verb? I think the average English speaker does not know what a subject, a verb or a direct object is, let alone whether a verb is transitive or intransitive or ... |
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Cyclist mows down a child, blames the child and clears off.
On 30/11/2016 10:04, Peter Keller wrote:
On 30.11.2016 07:11, JNugent wrote: On 29/11/2016 16:43, MrCheerful wrote: https://www.hackneycitizen.co.uk/201...oke-newington/ QUOTE: An 11-year-old schoolboy suffered a nasty shoulder injury after he was clattered by a cyclist as he crossed Wordsworth Road on his way to school last week. ENDQUOTE Sympathies to the child. What is this "clattered", used as a transitive verb? I think the average English speaker does not know what a subject, a verb or a direct object is, let alone whether a verb is transitive or intransitive or ... I fear you may be right. |
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