Correct the errors in the following sentence:
For entertaining Hai likes to go to outdoors concerts in the Summer or during the Winter, he watches reality television's shows.
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In the summer, Hai likes to go to outdoor concerts for entertainment; during the winter, however, he likes to watch reality television shows.
For entertainment; Hai likes to go to outdoor concerts in the summer, and watches reality shows on television in the winter.
Milijana: Excellent solution:-)
Umer: Be careful with semicolons; use them only after an independent clause. Also watch out for subject-verb agreement with parallel construction.
For entertainment, Hai likes to attend outdoor concerts in the summer and watch reality television shows in the winter.
Hai entertains himself in the summer by attending outdoor concerts and by watching reality television in the winter.
Cindy: Almost there--think punctuation.
Jeff: That's an interesting sentence--it's a little ambiguous as to whether reality television belongs with concerts or the winter. Try a different word order;-)
Many years of bad habits..
For entertainment, Hai likes to attend outdoor concerts in the summer, and watch reality television shows in the winter.
Rupinder,
In the summer,Hai likes to attend outdoor concerts for entertainment; during the winter,he likes to watch reality television shows.
Cindy: Actually, I read that too quickly, and you were right the first time. When you add the comma, you need to add a subject, e.g. "he" to the second clause. Sorry about that.
Rupinder: Good solution.
For summer entertainment, Hai attends outdoor concerts and for winter entertainment, he watches reality television shows.
Sara: Very close--just one comma error.
Hai likes to go to entertaining outdoors concerts in the summer; and during the winter, he watches reality television's shows.
For summer entertainment, Hai attends outdoor concerts, and for winter entertainment, he watches reality television shows.
Carole: An interesting solution:-)
Sara: That's good.
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