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Goodman  #404975  Wed, 15 Aug 07 04:43 PM
 Yankee wrote:
 Goodman wrote:

The Washington State Convention and Trade Center is conveniently located in downtown Seattle with our main entrance on the corner of 7th and Pike Streets. ...

 

The above sentence tells me the entrance is on the 7th street side. 

But I don't get that much detail from your sentence at all.  Sad [:(]

 

Hi Goodman,
As I said, in both versions of your sentence, the location of the entrance sounds the same to me: 
the corner is the location of the entrance.

This is possibly what I would say to indicate the location the way you wanted to indicate it above:

The Washington State Convention and Trade Center is conveniently located in downtown Seattle with our main entrance on 7th Street at the corner of Pike.


Hi Amy,

I agree. Your latest version “our main entrance is on 7th at Pike” no doubt is the most clear, however requiring an additional Prep. “on”.  In an case, I think the question is resolved.

 

  
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