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 #2 (permalink) Sat Jul 10, 2010 15:10 pm Accident: Rachel met with an accident last night. She was on a bike with her... |
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I think: I saw rachel have an accident last night.
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| #3 (permalink) Sat Jul 10, 2010 16:24 pm Accident: Rachel met with an accident last night. She was on a bike with her. |
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| Hardwork wrote: |
| Hi please correct this grammatically also if I have added any wrong words then please help me improve them. |
Sorry for the delay Hardwork. I wrote a reply to this on Friday, but must have forgotten to click 'send'.
1) Rachel met with an accident last night. She was riding pillion on a motor-bike with her friend. She has broken her leg very badly. It's the same leg which was fractured last year and she had been taking treatment for that same legreceiving treatment for it. I know that guy with whom she was on who was steering the bike. He rides very harsh hazardously. In fact, everyone told her not go with him but she had no option because she Siscouldn't get a cab and it was raining very heavily. I don't know what's happening to all my friends. One of my friends from Wipro died of aheart attack on the same day when my exams finished and I came to know didn't find out about his death until two days laterafter he had passed away.
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2) Is there any proper phrase which I can use here beacuse I don't know how to express myself properly in this statement:
I dont what's happening to my friends..... |
'I don't know what's happening to my friends' is fine as it is. You could also say 'I'm worried about my friends.'
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| 3) Do we say "rides very harsh"or some other word for harsh |
I've made a suggestion in the text.
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| #4 (permalink) Thu Jul 15, 2010 18:20 pm Accident: Rachel met with an accident last night. She was on a bike with her. |
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| Hardwork wrote: |
| Hi please correct this grammatically also if I have added any wrong words then please help me improve them. |
Sorry for the delay Hardwork. I wrote a reply to this on Friday, but must have forgotten to click 'send'.
1) Rachel met with an accident last night. She was riding pillion on a motor-bike with her friend. She has broken her leg very badly. It's the same leg which was fractured last year and she had been taking treatment for that same legreceiving treatment for it. I know that guy with whom she was on who was steering the bike. He rides very harsh hazardously. In fact, everyone told her not go with him but she had no option because she Siscouldn't get a cab and it was raining very heavily. I don't know what's happening to all my friends. One of my friends from Wipro died of aheart attack on the same day when my exams finished and I came to know didn't find out about his death until two days laterafter he had passed away.
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2) Is there any proper phrase which I can use here beacuse I don't know how to express myself properly in this statement:
I dont what's happening to my friends..... |
'I don't know what's happening to my friends' is fine as it is. You could also say 'I'm worried about my friends.'
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| 3) Do we say "rides very harsh"or some other word for harsh |
I've made a suggestion in the text. |
Hi Bee,just had some questions
1) Over here "She was riding pillion on a motor-bike with her friend" why do we say riding pillion when the person was just on a pillion seat and someone else was riding.
2) Also how do we frame this properly,"He was riding the bike and the glass of his helmet came on his face and at that same time a vechile coming from front hit his bike." |
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| #5 (permalink) Thu Jul 15, 2010 18:34 pm Accident: Rachel met with an accident last night. She was on a bike with her. |
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| Hardwork wrote: |
Hi Bee,just had some questions
1) Over here "She was riding pillion on a motor-bike with her friend" why do we say riding pillion when the person was just on a pillion seat and someone else was riding.
2) Also how do we frame this properly,"He was riding the bike and the glass of his helmet came on his face and at that same time a vechile coming from front hit his bike." |
1) This is the phrase as I have always heard it (A long time ago I would only go out with a boy if he had a motor bike so that I could 'ride pillion' with him.) Do you think that the person on the back isn't riding the motor-bike? They may not be steering it, but they are sitting on it when it is moving. What would you say instead? 'She was pillion' wouldn't work - you need a verb of some sort. The only alternative i can think of would be 'She was sitting on the pillion of...' which to me sounds as if the bike is stationary.
2) How about:
As he was riding, his helmet visor dropped over his face. Simultaneously (or just 'at the same time' if you want to keep to simpler vocabulary) a vehicle which was travelling towards him collided with the bike.
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