the car ran over me

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heidita

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This sentence appeared in another thread. It sounds very awkward to me. Is it just me?

I would have said:

I was run over by a car.

A car hit me/I was hit by a car.

A car ran me over.

Of course, to be hit doesn't exactly mean to be run over, but the above sentence still sounds awkward to me.

This was the exact sentence:

a car appeared and ran over me!
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    • You're right.
    Any of your suggestions would be OK but the original sounds clumsy and is very unlikely to be used by a native english speaker.
     
    Hockey13 said:
    Though I agree in terms of preference with heidita and rubbershoes, I wouldn't call this clumsy. I can imagine someone in New York saying this.
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    What part of New York would that be? Binghamton? Oswego? Hamilton?

    It sounds odd for AE. A New Yorker (from NYC, not the many millions in other parts of the state)
    would more likely say, "A car came outta nowhere and ran me over/down."

    A car appeared and came right at me. It stopped on a dime. Unfortunately, the dime was in my pocket. ;)
     
    cuchuflete said:
    What part of New York would that be? Binghamton? Oswego? Hamilton?

    It sounds odd for AE. A New Yorker (from NYC, not the many millions in other parts of the state)
    would more likely say, "A car came outta nowhere and ran me over/down."

    A car appeared and came right at me. It stopped on a dime. Unfortunately, the dime was in my pocket. ;)
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    Strictly Utica! (Simpsons reference)

    No, actually I meant the NYC area, and I can only vouch for where I grew up. I can clearly imagine people in my area using it, but yours sounds just as good, even if it is a little heavy on the dialect..;)
     
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