She walked across the road.
She walked over the road.
Which is correct?
In my opinion,I think the first sentence is right.
What is your opinion?

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Both are correct. But if you are trying to say that she walked from one side of the road to the other, then "across" is the best choice.

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They're both grammatically correct, but only the first one has a clear meaning. The second one would be clearer if you said she walked "along the road" or "down the road."

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As an American, I would never use 'over' to mean 'across'. 'over' would imply being above the road, for example taking a pedestrian overpass.

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Usually we say ACROSS because we want to cross the road and get to the other side. There are a lot of CHICKEN jokes: Why did the chicken cross the road? (people think of all sorts of answers to this! Some a quite funny).

But grammatically OVER is correct too. "I went over/across the road to see my friend. She lives over/across the road."

Here's a sentence from The Guardian newspaper: Bernard Anonier, a retired cereal farmer lives over the road and Pierre-Alain Petit, a factory worker, is nearby.  guardian.co.uk

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