the missing word bothers me, too. It also got killed in an intersection on its way to work, to show up in this meme.

  • caden@lemmy.sdf.org
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    15 days ago

    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.