Thursday, November 20, 2008

GRAMMAR QUESTION, November 20, 2009

Correct the errors in the following sentence

While I had arrived in Paris neither the bus or the trains was running, the following day the buses ran and trains had been started to move later at the afternoon.

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7 comments:

Abby Heiser said...

When I arrived in Paris neither the buses nor the trains were running; the following afternoon, however, both had started to move.

uzma said...

When I arrived in Paris neither buses nor the trains were running,the buses ran the following day and later at afternoon the trains started to moved.

uzma said...

When I arrived in Paris neither buses nor the trains were running,the buses ran the following day and later at afternoon the trains started to move.SORRY it is "move" not moved.

uzma said...

When I arrived in Paris neither buses nor the trains were running;the buses ran the following day and later at the afternoon the trains started to move.

Veronica Baig said...

ABBY: A grammatically good sentnece, but note that the meaning has changed a little;-)
UZMA: Good--you caught your mistake; now check punctuation and preposition usage;-)
UZMA: You've caught the one punctuation error, but there is another one, and the preposition problem is still there;-)

Abby Heiser said...

When I arrived in Paris neither the buses nor the trains were running; later that afternoon, however, the trains started to move with the buses joining in later that day.

Veronica Baig said...

ABBY: Even better:-)