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namsteven
09-05-2005, 11:53 PM
Dear Teacher,

1) Just go straight/ahead about two hundreds metres, you will see a crossroads/intersection, just keep going straight/ahead about twenty metres. It'll be on your right beside the post office, and there is a small blind alley, just go inside it, the place you need to find is next to a blue house.

2) Just go straight /ahead this street/road about four hundreds metres, you will see a three-way crossroads/T-junction, let it be! keep going straight about sixty metres, it'll be on your left by a big bookstore/book-shop.

- Are these sentences ok to say?

Thanks very much.

Nam Steven.

Pete
09-06-2005, 05:40 PM
Dear Teacher,

1) Just go straight/ahead about two hundreds metres, you will see a crossroads/intersection, just keep going straight/ahead about twenty metres. It'll be on your right beside the post office, and there is a small blind alley, just go inside it, the place you need to find is next to a blue house.

2) Just go straight /ahead this street/road about four hundreds metres, you will see a three-way crossroads/T-junction, let it be! keep going straight about sixty metres, it'll be on your left by a big bookstore/book-shop.

- Are these sentences ok to say?

Thanks very much.

Nam Steven.
1) Just go straight/ahead about two hundreds metres; you will see a crossroads/intersection; just keep going straight/ahead about twenty metres. It'll be on your right beside the post office, and there is a small blind alley, just go inside it, the place you need to find is next to a blue house. [OK; I changed some commas to semicolons. The OED shows "cross road(s)" and "cross-road(s)" much more often than it shows it as a single word.]

2) Just go straight /ahead along this street/road about four hundreds metres; you will see a three-way crossroads/T-junction /road coming in from the left/right, let it be! keep going straight about sixty metres; it'll be on your left by a big bookstore/book-shop. [I've never heard the phrase "three-way crossroads". I usually refer to a "T in the road" when I'm coming up the "stem" and have to choose to go left or right.]