Tina3
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- Mar 31, 2012
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- Student or Learner
- Native Language
- Bulgarian
- Home Country
- Bulgaria
- Current Location
- Spain
It is the fruit trucks that are most rigorously checked. They typically carry crates of watermelons.
Piled on top of each other, they are, the authorities say, a classic place for immigrants to hide.
One of the vehicles pulls up at Patras port. The customs officers spring into action, cutting holes in the cardboard boxes to check the fruit, clambering inside to prod and search and shining torches underneath. After a lengthy process, the truck is cleared to board the ferry.
Patras is Greece's biggest port - known as the gateway to the west. Ships here leave to Italy and the vehicles on board often travel further still. It is a smugglers' hub into Europe - one of the continent's most vulnerable borders.
Suddenly there is a commotion in one corner. The guards have opened a vehicle containing gas canisters. And five men are found crammed inside. They sit, heads bowed. One says he is from Afghanistan.
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Piled on top of each other, they are, the authorities say, a classic place for immigrants to hide.
Are the commas necessary in the above sentence?
I think the following is the correct one.
Piled on top of each other they are, the authorities say, a classic place for immigrants to hide.
They sit, heads bowed.
The comma is completely wrong in the above.
It should be the following:
They sit heads bowed.
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Piled on top of each other, they are, the authorities say, a classic place for immigrants to hide.
Are the commas necessary in the above sentence?
I think the following is the correct one.
Piled on top of each other they are, the authorities say, a classic place for immigrants to hide.
They sit, heads bowed.
The comma is completely wrong in the above.
It should be the following:
They sit heads bowed.