Tuesday, April 13, 2010

GRAMMAR QUESTION, Apr. 13th, 2010

Correct the errors in the following sentence:

The blue foreign unusual car has been driving erratic when it'd went off the road and the driver Jack Lemay is injured serious.

Remember that there is more than one possible correct answer.

17 comments:

Stephanie said...

Jack Lemay was driving erratically the strange and unusual blue car when it went off the road; the driver was injured seriously.

Julie said...

Driving erratically the strange and unusual blue car, Jack Lemay was seriously injured when it went off the road.

Saadat said...

Jack Lemay was erratically driving the unusual blue foreign car when it went off the road ,and seriously injured the driver.

maya said...

The driver of the unusual, foreign-made blue car, Jack Lemay, was seriously injured when his car went off the road due to his erratic driving.

The driver of the unusual, foreign-made blue car, Jack Lemay, was driving erratically, and was seriously injured when his car went off the road.

maya said...

Jack Lemay, the driver of the unusual, foreign-made blue car, was driving erratically and was seriously injured when his car went off the road.

Veronica Baig said...

STEPHANIE:This is a big improvement; now think if there is any way you might improve the word order;-)
JULIE:You've clearly seen the mainproblems here, but you need to think a little more about word order and punctuation;-)
SAADAT:You're definitely on the right track here, but there is some awkward wording and some punctuation problems;-)
MAYA:#s 1 and 3 are the best--well done!

Unknown said...

Jack Lemay had been driving the blue foreign car erratically when it went off the road; he was seriously injured.

jaya said...

The foreign ,unusual blue car was driving by Jack Lemay,he injured seriously when it went off the road due to erratic driving.

Veronica Baig said...

INGRID: A nice solution:-)
JAYA: You have the right idea, but you need to check the verb forms;-)

Stephanie said...

The strange and unusual blue car driven erratically by Jack Lemay went off the road, and it injured seriously the driver.

Saadat said...

Jack Lemay, was erratically driving the unusual, blue, foreign car when it went off the road, and seriously injured himself.

Veronica Baig said...

STEPHANIE: Again there's soem improvement, but there is still some awkward word order;-)
SAADAT: That's better, but you need to look at the punctuation again;-)

Saadat said...

Jack Lemay was erratically driving unusual, blue, foreign car when it went off the road and seriously injured himself.

Veronica Baig said...

SAADAT: Still not quite there--a missing word, pronoun usage (himself).

Stephanie said...

The strange and unusual blue car driven erratically by Jack Lemay went off the road; the driver was injured seriously.

Saadat said...

Jack Lemay was erratically driving unusual, blue, foreign car when it went off the road and seriously injured the driver.

Veronica Baig said...

STEPHANIE: Yes, but this makes it seem that the driver and Jack are two different people;-)
SAADAT: You're missing a word here, and you're also making the sAme mistake as Stephanie;-)
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