Thursday, July 17, 2008

GRAMMAR QUESTION, July 17th, 2009

Correct the errors in the following sentence overheard in the supermarket:

Seeing that Starbucks’ opens at Safeway stores now I wonder if it would now loose customer’s from their regular outlets.

Remember that there is more than one possible correct answer.

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4 comments:

katarina said...

Seeing now, that Starbucks opens at Safeway stores, I wonder if it would loose customers from its regular outlets.

Veronica Baig said...

Katarina: You're on the right track--now think about word form and pronoun agreement.

Unknown said...

Seeing,those Starbucks open at Safeway stores now,I wonder,if they would loose customers from their regular outlets now.

Veronica Baig said...

Sariyat: You're part way there. I don't know why you want to use a comma after "seeing", and you also need to think about pronoun agreement;-)