Friday, February 15, 2013

GRAMMAR QUESTION, Feb. 15th, 2013

Please correct the errors in the following sentence.

As the matter of fact, she was a person who hard being convinced for instant, she certainly would likes to thinks that his opinion are the corrected then any one else view.
There are lots of possible answers--lots of opportunities to earn bonus points!

28 comments:

Unknown said...

As a matter of fact, she was a person whom was hard to be convinced. For instance, she would like to believe that his opinion was more valid than any one else's view.

Sarah A said...

She was, in fact, a person who was hard to convince. For instance, she would like to think that his opinion was more accurate than anyone else's view.

Unknown said...

As the matter of fact, she was a person who is hard being convinced, for instance, she certainly would like to thinks that her opinion are the corrected than anyone else view.

maryannth said...

In fact, she was hard to convince. She certainly liked to think his opinion was more correct than anyone else’s opinion.

Donna said...

As a matter of fact, she was a person who was hard to convince. For instance, she certainly would like to think that her opinion was more correct than anyone else's point of view.

Beatrice L said...

As a matter of fact, she was a person who was hard to convince. For instance, she thought that his opinion was valid and better than someone else's opinion.

KirstenS said...

As a matter of fact, she was a person that was hard to convince. For instance, she would like to think that his opinion was correct over everyone else’s point of view.

Alesha B said...

As the matter of fact, she was a person who was hard to convince. For example, she liked to think that his opinions were more accurate then anyone else's views.

Veronica Baig said...

ALYCIA:Almost--check the relative pronoun;-)
SARAH: A good solution:-)
JIA YI:You've made a good start, but here are the things you need to think about: the passive construction, punctuation, verb form, and the comparative;-)
MARY ANN:brief but good!
DONNA:An excellent answer:-)
BEATRICE:A good solution:-)
KIRSTEN:Another good solution:-)
ALESHA: Almost--can you fix the article error?

Alesha B said...

As a matter of fact, she was a person who was hard to convince. For example, she liked to think that his opinions were more accurate then anyone else's views.

Ada Bran said...

As a matter of fact, she is a person who is hard to convinced. For instance, she certainly likes thinking that her opinion is more correct than anyone else.

Unknown said...

As a matter of fact, she was a person that was hard to be convinced. For instance, she would like to believe that his opinion was more valid than any one else's view.

Grace H said...

As a matter of fact, she was a person who was hard to convince. For instance, she liked to place his opinion above anyone else's views.

lisayak7 said...

As the matter of fact, she was a person who was hard to convince. For instant, she certainly would like to think that his opinion was the correct one rather than any one else's view.

Vivien said...

As a matther of fact,she was a hard person to convince, that her opinions are not better than everyone else's views.

Veronica Baig said...

ALESHA:Yes--but I also now note a word confusion error;-)
ADA:That's a good start. There are 2 things to think about: a verb form error and a possessive problem;-)
ALYCIA:That's better--note that 'anyone' is one word;-)
GRACE:An excellent solution:-)
LISA:Almost--there is a word confusion error;-)
VIVIEN:Almost--check the punctuation;-)

Alesha B said...

As a matter of fact, she was a person who was hard to convince. For example, she liked to put his opinions over everyone else's views.

Jennifer said...

As a matter of fact, she was a person who was hard to convince. For instant, she certainly would like to think that her opinions are more rational than anyone else’s point of view.

leslieB155 said...

As the matter of fact, she was a person who was hard to convince. She certainly would like to think that his opinion is more correct then other opinions.

Veronica Baig said...

ALESHA: OK--you've avoided the issue and the grammar is now good;-)
JENNIFER:Almost--you have a word confusion error;-)
LESLIE: Very close--there's a word confusion in the second sentence;-)

leslieB155 said...

As the matter of fact, she was a person who was hard to convince. She certainly would like to think that his opinion is more correct than other opinions.

Alesha B said...

As a matter of fact, she was a person who was hard to convince. For example, she would put his opinion over everyone else's view.

Veronica Baig said...

LESLIE: Almost--there is an article usage error;-)
ALESHA: You were good before;-)

Leslieb255 said...

As a matter of fact, she was a person who was hard to convince. She certainly would like to believe his opinion is more correct than other opinions.

Anonymous said...

The fact is she was a hard person to convince for instant, she would certainly like to thinks that her opinion is the correct even when compaird to any one else's view.

Anonymous said...

Sorry that last post was from Robert

Veronica Baig said...

LESLIE: thank you:-)
ROBERT: you're on the right track, but there are several problems: word confusion, punctuation, and spelling;-)

Leigha said...

As a matter of fact, she was a person who was hard to convince; for instance, she would certainly like to think her viewpoint was better than anyone else's view.