Trolley
Trolley
the missing word bothers me, too. It also got killed in an intersection on its way to work, to show up in this meme.
31 comments
-
-
So many lives destroyed and still being destroyed. No end in sight.
-
To everyone who can't figure out the missing word, it's "the people once tied to them 'WERE' killed in crosswalks.."
-
I think it's correct as-is. Inserting a "were" would make that clause read as independent. With how the sentence is currently structured, that doesn't work.
That's not to say you couldn't have
The tracks are now unruley [sic] and wild—the people once tied to them were killed in crosswalks by giant trucks
if you want, but the comma needs to change to something like a dash or a semicolon. With a comma (i.e., as a subordinate clause), "were" doesn't make sense.
-
Hey now, I cheated on my English final, don't reveal my shame
-
-
It's correct without the were. If you added it, the previous comma would need to be a period or semicolon instead.
-
-
I've read it 3 times, and I can't find a missing word. It makes sense to me. What word is missing?
-
The missing word is so annoying.
-
More fun with trolleys:
https://neal.fun/absurd-trolley-problems/ -
Jeez. At least do rails-to-trails with them.
-
I can revegetate her
-
Seriously though, as much as I hate that we've abandoned so many railroads in this country, even the urban ones should at least be turned into walking/biking trails once they stop being used. It's ridiculous to drive past overgrown train tracks and think, "I wouldn't even need a car if those things were in use, but as it is right now it isn't even safe to use them as a footpath."
A former switchyard in the town where I grew up got turned into a beautiful park and there are trails going through town where the railroad tracks went. Obviously a trolley or some other sort of passenger rail would be better, but at least make that otherwise useless land some sort of public good.
-
-
-
Everybody moved on to autonomous car dillemas
-
You should read "Where the Trains Turn" by Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen if you think trains are so bloody great. Might wake you up.
(Kidding, it's actually a wildly unique cosmic horror novella.)
31 comments
I don't see a missing word.
You can add the word "fucking" pretty much anywhere.
And it's rarely wrong to do so!
You don't see it because it's missing
I answered the comment below you but I couldn't resist this stupid joke
A comma maybe, then.
'the people once tied to them killed in a crosswalk' really sounds weird to me.
Heck, my phone agrees.
I think a colon would be the most apt punctuation here.
But to be honest I was fine with no punctuation. The bit that most bothers me is the choice of preposition. You don't go in a crosswalk. You go on it. Or maybe you're at the crosswalk when you're killed. But certainly not in.
Seems like a stylistic choice to me. Leaving out the "have been" makes it sound more poetic, but I don't think it's wrong per se
Not a native speaker but for me it sounds fine. The "are now" is left out because it would be repeated if that makes sense.
"The people, [who were] tied to them, [are now] killed in a crosswalk."
Grammar has so many "technically correct" yet odd sentence structures.
The sentence definitely has a weird flow and could absolutely contain reader assistance via punctuation.
I see a lot of other problems, but not a missing word...