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michael_sun

Sept. 25, 2021

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51 Stop Signs

51 Stop Signs
When they were walking on the street, a big stop sign loomed over them, casting menacing shadow in front of them. To make things worse, the stop sign was staring at his home office all the time. Why was the sign put here where there was few traffic? Michael, the intrepid tax lawyer, wrote a Freedom Information request to the town. Then he received a map, a police report, and the name of the enigmatic man who requested the stop sign here. They hit the road and went to the bottom of the cater. They started the search by watching the town hall meeting. They needed to find out where these stop signs had come from.

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51 Stop Signs

When they were walking on the street, a big stop sign loomed over them, casting a menacing shadow in front of them.

To make things worse, the stop sign was staring at his home office all the time.

Why was the sign put here where there was fewlittle traffic?

Traffic is uncountable, so we can't use "few".

Michael, the intrepid tax lawyer, wrote a Freedom of Information request to the town.

Then he received a map, a police report, and the name of the enigmatic man who had requested the stop sign here.

Past perfect because the story is in the past, and the request was made *before* the events of the story.

They hit the road and went to the bottom of the crater.

I'm not sure if this is the word you wanted, and I don't know what you want to express. If this is an idiom, I'm not familiar with it.

They started the search by watching the town hall meeting.

They needed to find out where these stop signs had come from.

51 Stop Signs


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51 Stop Signs


When they were walking on the street, a big stop sign loomed over them, casting menacing shadow in front of them.


When they were walking on the street, a big stop sign loomed over them, casting a menacing shadow in front of them.

To make things worse, the stop sign was staring at his home office all the time.


This sentence has been marked as perfect!

Why was the sign put here where there was few traffic?


Why was the sign put here where there was fewlittle traffic?

Traffic is uncountable, so we can't use "few".

Michael, the intrepid tax lawyer, wrote a Freedom Information request to the town.


Michael, the intrepid tax lawyer, wrote a Freedom of Information request to the town.

Then he received a map, a police report, and the name of the enigmatic man who requested the stop sign here.


Then he received a map, a police report, and the name of the enigmatic man who had requested the stop sign here.

Past perfect because the story is in the past, and the request was made *before* the events of the story.

They hit the road and went to the bottom of the cater.


They hit the road and went to the bottom of the crater.

I'm not sure if this is the word you wanted, and I don't know what you want to express. If this is an idiom, I'm not familiar with it.

They started the search by watching the town hall meeting.


This sentence has been marked as perfect!

They needed to find out where these stop signs had come from.


This sentence has been marked as perfect!

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