A few days ago
Meish

need help with grammar please.?

“I noticed an idling blue and white city bus patiently awaited the arrival of its passengers”

i’ve got an idea but i’m not quite sure.

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A few days ago
John V

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“I noticed an idling blue and white city bus patiently awating the arrival of its passengers.”

Change awaited to awaiting.

Gramatically the sentence is ok. A bus, as a machine, really does not have characteristics like patience. So use of this adverb in this context is portraying a certain style and mood.

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A few days ago
Ranto
“Awaited” should be “Awaiting” — or you should restructure it by adding “that”.

There should probably be some commas in there.

Other than that — I think it is crammatically correct, but really clumbsy. Can a bus be patient? there are twoo many ajectives before bus.

I suggest a complete rewrite:

I noticed a blue and white city bus that idled as it awaited the arrival of its passengers.

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A few days ago
yancychipper
I noticed an idling blue and white city bus patiently awaited the arrival of its passengers.

It’s an awkward sentence.

I noticed that an idling blue and white city bus was patiently awaiting the arrival of its passengers.

I don’t believe the coma is necessary between idling and blue as idling was one of the things the bus was doing.

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A few days ago
lakelover
Driver was waiting patiently the bus is unable to wait in any way. What were you doing when you noticed the bus?
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A few days ago
hayharbr
Change awaited to awaiting.
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A few days ago
csbiup
I’m not sure what the question is
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A few days ago
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“awaiting”
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