Trolley
Trolley
the missing word bothers me, too. It also got killed in an intersection on its way to work, to show up in this meme.
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To everyone who can't figure out the missing word, it's "the people once tied to them 'WERE' killed in crosswalks.."
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.
Hey now, I cheated on my English final, don't reveal my shame
It's correct without the were. If you added it, the previous comma would need to be a period or semicolon instead.