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Tuesday, March 19, 2013
GRAMMAR QUESTION, March 19th, 2013
Please
correct the errors in the following sentence.
There were
to much peoples at the mall so I was hurried up shopping, I was too hurried
that the shirt’s I bought's not big enough and I'm having to return them.
There are lots of possible answers--lots of opportunities
to earn bonus points!
8 comments:
Yadiriny189
said...
There were so many people at the mall that I was precipitated with my shopping; therefore, I bought shirts that were not big enough for me and I'm going to have trouble returning them.
There were so many people at the mall that I hurried my shopping and bought shirts that are not big enough, therefore I have to go back to return them.
There were too many people at the mall, so I hurried up shopping. Because I was so hurried, I didn't notice the shirts that I bought were not big enough. Therefore, I had to return them.
There were so many people at the mall that I hurried my shopping, and I bought shirts that were not big enough for me, now I'm going to have to return them.
OLIVIA: That's a good solution--please identify yourself! YADIRINY: You still have a punctuation error; think about that you need when you have 2 independent clauses and no coordinating conjunction;-)
There were so many people at the mall that I hurried my shopping, and I bought shirts that were not big enough for me; now I'm going to have to return them.
8 comments:
There were so many people at the mall that I was precipitated with my shopping; therefore, I bought shirts that were not big enough for me and I'm going to have trouble returning them.
There were so many people at the mall that I hurried my shopping and bought shirts that are not big enough, therefore I have to go back to return them.
YADIRINY:a good start--now think about a verb form and punctuation;-)
CHANTELL:Almost--can you check the punctuation?
There were too many people at the mall, so I hurried up shopping. Because I was so hurried, I didn't notice the shirts that I bought were not big enough. Therefore, I had to return them.
There were so many people at the mall that I hurried my shopping, and I bought shirts that were not big enough for me, now I'm going to have to return them.
OLIVIA: That's a good solution--please identify yourself!
YADIRINY: You still have a punctuation error; think about that you need when you have 2 independent clauses and no coordinating conjunction;-)
There were so many people at the mall that I hurried my shopping, and I bought shirts that were not big enough for me; now I'm going to have to return them.
YADIRINY: Good!
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