Difficult preposition: Reports are coming in ... a 100 mph car chase through the

[duc]

put a correct preposition to the blank:

Reports are coming in......a 100 mph car chase through the roads of Hampshire.

The answer is ''of'' but I don't understand.
Can you tell me the meaning of ''come in of..''?
I don't see it in my dictionary.

By the way ,please tell me the meaning of the above sentence.


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[Alan]

Hi Duc,

In your sentence you have to separate the two prepositions - 'in' and 'of'. 'Reports are coming in' means Reports are arriving. The preposition 'of' refers back to 'Reports' and suggests Reports about.

You could rewrite the sentence to read: Reports of a 100 mph car chase through the roads of Hampshire are coming in In other words you have to imagine this is something said by a radio/tv reporter telling us that he has just heard about a story concerning two cars chasing each other at a 100 miles per hour along some roads in Hampshire.

Hope this clarifies.

Alan
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