An NPR commentator: “We lived in a two-story house in the basement.”
That must have been some basement.
A possible revision: “We lived in the basement of a two-story house.”
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The spoken word is missing a comma. “We lived in a two-story house, in the basement.”
The pause would help. The original sounded like “We lived in a two-story house in Brooklyn,” no pause.
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