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Chan-Seung Lee
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 Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 10:47 pm Post subject: nowhere2 |
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| Typical- another street crime and the police are nowhere to be seen. |
What does it mean? Can you paraphrase it?
Is 'another street crime and the police' a subject in the sentence?
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CP
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It's a little bit of a telegraphic sentence. The full version:
Well, isn't that typical? Another street crime occurs, and yet the police are nowhere to be seen.
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