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Friday, November 28, 2014
*GRAMMAR QUESTION*
Correct the errors in the following sentence:
I wasn’t understanding what he means when in a speech he has given Mr Harper was saying the funding will help them suffering from mental illness and their family’s.
Solutions will be posted in the next edition of the blog.
6 comments:
Eugenie C.
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Eugenie C. 155
- means becomes meant - comma after "when" - has becomes had - comma after "given" - add "that" after "the" - them becomes those - family's becomes families
I wasn't understanding what he meant when, in a speech he had given, Mr Harper was saying that the funding will help those suffering from mental illness and their families.
Note: British spelling indicates that abbreviations do not take a period afterwards if the last letter of the actual word is the last letter of the abbreviation but American spelling requires a period after the abbreviation nonetheless.
I couldn't understand what he meant when, in a speech he gave, Mr Harper said: "the funding will help those suffering from mental ilnness and their families."
-I felt that replacing "wasn't" with "couldn't" made the sentence flow better and so I also had to "understanding" to "understand". -comma after "when" -"has given" was replaced with "gave" I felt that it made it flow better with this adjustment. -"was saying" was replaced with "said" ...I am all for simplifying the text. -add a colon after said -quotation marks before: the funding... -them becomes those -family's becomes families -close quotation marks after families
Note: I added a few adjustments because I felt it improved the sentence. Some of these changes may not have been necessary since they may not have been errors in the first place.
I didn't understand what he meant in the speech he had given when Mr Harper said the funding will help those suffering with mental illness and their familiy's.
I did not understand what he meant in the speech that he had given. Mr. Harper was speaking about how the funding will help, those people and their families, suffering from mental illness.
6 comments:
Eugenie C. 155
- means becomes meant
- comma after "when"
- has becomes had
- comma after "given"
- add "that" after "the"
- them becomes those
- family's becomes families
I wasn't understanding what he meant when, in a speech he had given, Mr Harper was saying that the funding will help those suffering from mental illness and their families.
Note: British spelling indicates that abbreviations do not take a period afterwards if the last letter of the actual word is the last letter of the abbreviation but American spelling requires a period after the abbreviation nonetheless.
I couldn't understand what he meant when, in a speech he gave, Mr Harper said: "the funding will help those suffering from mental ilnness and their families."
-I felt that replacing "wasn't" with "couldn't" made the sentence flow better and so I also had to "understanding" to "understand".
-comma after "when"
-"has given" was replaced with "gave" I felt that it made it flow better with this adjustment.
-"was saying" was replaced with "said" ...I am all for simplifying the text.
-add a colon after said
-quotation marks before: the funding...
-them becomes those
-family's becomes families
-close quotation marks after families
Note: I added a few adjustments because I felt it improved the sentence. Some of these changes may not have been necessary since they may not have been errors in the first place.
I didn't understand what he meant in the speech he had given when Mr Harper said the funding will help those suffering with mental illness and their familiy's.
I did not understand what he meant in the speech he gave, Mr.Harper said the funding will help those suffering from mental illness and their families.
Good work, everyone. I think you spotted most of the problems. I will post a full explanation soon.
I did not understand what he meant in the speech that he had given. Mr. Harper was speaking about how the funding will help, those people and their families, suffering from mental illness.
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