can you clarify the difference.............please

Sentence 1 shows the man is moving from one side of the road to the other while sentence 2 shows the man walking /moving on the other side other road (one-side only).Tnx

I guess its preety obvious , the second statement is wrong it say the man was WAS walking across the road , hope i am correct ..

erm....i would say they both say the same except in sentence 2 you are making a statement about precisly how the man was getting across the road. Sorry can't be much help!

when we say that the man was crossing the road, the man is managing to get from one side of the road to the other in a manner which is feasible to him. a disabled man without feet, may go crawling while crossing. an abled or normal one, may be walking or running while doing so. this is for sentence 1. as for sentence 2, it is clearly stated that the man was walking across the road. he may not be crossing road, but one thing is definite, he is across the road from where i am and, i see him walking therein.

From what I understand with this sentence, crossing the road means walking across it with cars passing, and walking across the road means walking across a road where there are no cars. What do you think?

Is this a trick question? In the second sentence, the man was WALKING i.e. not crawling or driving, etc. Both are trying to get to the other side by virtue of the words "crossing" and "across" but in the second, the mode of getting across is clearly stated - WALKING. In the first sentence, he could be limping or walking with his hands and we would be none the wiser?