giddyman
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Which is correct in the parentheses, overflowing or overflown?
One night, Queen Victoria was going to London on a special train. There was heavy fog that night. This made the engine driver very tense because he couldn’t see what was in front of him. Suddenly there was something in the dark. It seemed that somebody was waving his arms. Immediately, the driver slammed on the brakes. He quickly got out of the train to see who was there. Nobody was to be seen. With his fellow workers he searched the area carefully. About 200 yards ahead of the train, the track had been washed away due to an (overflowing/overflown) river. If that person hadn’t warned him, they would have fallen into the river.
No one was to be found. After the track had been repaired, the train headed for London again. The driver searched the train thoroughly after all the passengers had left. He found a big moth stuck on the headlight of the engine. The moth had run into the headlight of the train as it neared the site with the washed away track. The moth’s wings were spread like a person waving his arms. The moth was removed carefully and is still kept in the British Museum today.
source: An English study book published in South Korea
ISBN: 89-85456-93-8
One night, Queen Victoria was going to London on a special train. There was heavy fog that night. This made the engine driver very tense because he couldn’t see what was in front of him. Suddenly there was something in the dark. It seemed that somebody was waving his arms. Immediately, the driver slammed on the brakes. He quickly got out of the train to see who was there. Nobody was to be seen. With his fellow workers he searched the area carefully. About 200 yards ahead of the train, the track had been washed away due to an (overflowing/overflown) river. If that person hadn’t warned him, they would have fallen into the river.
No one was to be found. After the track had been repaired, the train headed for London again. The driver searched the train thoroughly after all the passengers had left. He found a big moth stuck on the headlight of the engine. The moth had run into the headlight of the train as it neared the site with the washed away track. The moth’s wings were spread like a person waving his arms. The moth was removed carefully and is still kept in the British Museum today.
source: An English study book published in South Korea
ISBN: 89-85456-93-8
