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Thursday, April 4, 2013
GRAMMAR QUESTION, April 4th, 2013
Correct the sentence below. There are many errors and many possible correct solutions--lots of bonus points for everyone!
Driving to
the mall last week my car was near disappearing in a pothole: deciding to call
the cities administration reporting the problem, I was hoping the problem was
to be fixed quickly however its still their and its to be avoided.
7 comments:
Yadiriny189
said...
When I was driving to the mall last week, my car almost disappeared in a pothole. I decided to call the city’s administration to report the problem, and I was hoping the problem was going to be fixed quickly. However, it’s still there, please try to avoid it.
When I was driving to the mall last week, my car nearly disappeared in the pothole. I decided to call the city’s administration to report the problem hoping it will be fixed quickly. However, the pothole is still there and it’s to be avoided.
When I was driving to the mall last week, my car almost disappeared in a pothole. I decided to call the city’s administration to report the problem, and I was hoping the problem was going to be fixed quickly; however, it’s still there, please try to avoid it.
While I was driving to the mall last week my car nearly disappeared in a pothole. I decided to call the city's administration to report the problem, i was hoping the pothole would get fixed quickly. However, the pothole has still not been fixed and should be avoided.
ELENA:Close--check the punctuation (last sentence), and also think about replacing "will" with a modal;-) YADIRINY:You have a comma where you need a semicolon;-) NELLENE: nearly there--check the punctuation;-)
When I was driving to the mall last week, my car almost disappeared in a pothole. I decided to call the city’s administration to report the problem, and I was hoping the problem was going to be fixed quickly. However, it’s still there; please try to avoid it.
7 comments:
When I was driving to the mall last week, my car almost disappeared in a pothole. I decided to call the city’s administration to report the problem, and I was hoping the problem was going to be fixed quickly. However, it’s still there, please try to avoid it.
YADIRINY: Almost--there's one punctuation error;-)
When I was driving to the mall last week, my car nearly disappeared in the pothole. I decided to call the city’s administration to report the problem hoping it will be fixed quickly. However, the pothole is still there and it’s to be avoided.
When I was driving to the mall last week, my car almost disappeared in a pothole. I decided to call the city’s administration to report the problem, and I was hoping the problem was going to be fixed quickly; however, it’s still there, please try to avoid it.
While I was driving to the mall last week my car nearly disappeared in a pothole. I decided to call the city's administration to report the problem, i was hoping the pothole would get fixed quickly. However, the pothole has still not been fixed and should be avoided.
ELENA:Close--check the punctuation (last sentence), and also think about replacing "will" with a modal;-)
YADIRINY:You have a comma where you need a semicolon;-)
NELLENE: nearly there--check the punctuation;-)
When I was driving to the mall last week, my car almost disappeared in a pothole. I decided to call the city’s administration to report the problem, and I was hoping the problem was going to be fixed quickly. However, it’s still there; please try to avoid it.
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