Wednesday, July 21, 2010

GRAMMAR QUESTION, July 21st, 2010

Correct the errors in the following sentence:

Seeing that starbucks’ opens at safeway stores now and they had also opened at many book stores’;  I wonder if it would now loose customer’s from their regular outlets.

9 comments:

Meghan said...

Seeing that Starbucks now opened at Safeway Stores and also at many bookstores, I wonder if it will lose customers from its regular outlets.

Grace said...

Starbucks had been opened at many book stores and now they also open at Safeway stores; I wonder if it would be losing customers from their regular outlets.

Veronica Baig said...

MEGHAN:Very close--there's an auxiliary verb missing;-)
GRACE: You are also close, but you need to think about whether to use teh active or passive voice and the verb tense;-)

Grace said...

Starbucks opened at many book stores and now they also open at Safeway stores; I wonder if it would lose customers from their regular outlets.

Meghan said...

Seeing that Starbucks has now opened at Safeway Stores and also at many bookstores, I wonder if it will lose customers from its regular outlets.

Veronica Baig said...

GRACE: You're on the right track, but you still need to think about verb tense;-)
MEGHAN:Thank you:-)

Solie189 said...
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Solie189 said...

Seeing that Starbucks had opened at Safeway Stores and also at many bookstores, I wonder if they will lose customers from their regular outlets.

Anonymous said...

I have seeing Starebucks opened at Safewawy stores now; they have also opened at many book stores. I wonder if they'll lose costumers from their regular outlets.