Walk down the street

English as a Second Language English Vocabulary, Grammar and Idioms
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Hello :slight_smile:

Could anybody tell me the difference between these sentences?

A. Everybody was staring at the woman walking down the street.

B. Everybody was staring at the woman walking in the street.

C. Everybody was staring at the woman walking on the street.

Thanks a lot

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Hi,
Your sentences are quite funny to me :slight_smile:
I’d say “down the street” mean people assume she is an uptown lady, “in the street” when she’s going between blocks of flats in the US and “on the street” when in Asia.
Actually, “on” or “in” here is the same in the sense that she’s simply walking on a road. “Down the street” may imply she’s “up to” something like shopping :smiley:

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‘… down the street’ is perfectly natural, and is akin to ‘al;ong the street’.

The others in turn mean:
in the street - in the middle of the road.
on the street - on the area taken up by the street.

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Could you explain ‘down the street’ in the similar way to the others?

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down/up the street = along the street… walking away from one end of the street towards the other end of the street.

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Thank you!