caden
caden@lemmy.sdf.org
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9 points
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.
with the population around 2,243 - more than double of the facility’s designed limit of 1,200.
That math is not mathing…