Thursday, June 20, 2013

GRAMMAR QUESTION, June 20th, 2013

Correct the errors in the following sentence:

Pauls always been borrowing his red stylish sporty-looking newer car to his brother who’s lending it while his old battered rust-spotted white vehicle is in the garage for repairing.

Remember that there is more than one possible correct answer; each student should provide a different answer.

6 comments:

Unknown said...

Paul has always lent his red, stylish, newer, and sporty-looking car to his brother who has borrowed it; while his old, battered, white, rust-spotted vehicle is in the garage getting repaired.

Veronica Baig said...

JESSICA: Please review the "Previous Grammar Question" for adjective word order--also check the punctuation;-)

Unknown said...

Take 2!

Paul has always lent his sport-looking, stylish, newer, red car to his brother who is borrowing it, while his battered, old, white, rust-spotted vehicle is in the garage getting repaired.

Veronica Baig said...

JESSICA: Better, but in each series of adjectives there are two you need to reverse;-)

Unknown said...

Pauls always lends his newer, sporty-looking, red ,stylish car to his brother who borrows it while his old battered rust-spotted white vehicle is in the garage for repairing.

Veronica Baig said...

HONGXING: I like your avatar! Now to the grammar: Check person's name and adjective word order (for help with this, see the "previous grammar question" on the blog;-)