Thursday, January 8, 2015

*GRAMMAR QUESTION*

Correct the errors in the following sentence:


The silver, new, shiney car was drove by Tim and I when we  had gone to Western Canada seeing the Rocky mountains and some of tourist traps along the Highway; but we seen little wild animals and not a single bear: however the wild flowers had been blossoming.

Solutions will be posted in the next edition of the blog.

9 comments:

JefersonC155 said...

Tim and I were driving a shiny new silver car to western Canada to see the Rocky Mountains. There were some tourist traps all along the highway. We saw very little wild animals, but not a single bear; however, the wild flowers were blossoming.

aliochaENGL177 said...

Tim and I drove the new, silver, and shiny car to western Canada to see the Rocky Mountains. There were some tourist traps all along the highway. We didn't see many wild animals, and not a single bear; however, the wild flowers were blossoming.

Sofia M. ENGL189 said...

Tim and I drove the shiny, silver, new car to Western Canada to see the Rocky mountains and some of the tourist's traps along the Highway. We saw little wild animals, but not a single bear. The wild flowers, however, were blossoming.

Eugenie C.155 said...

Tim and I drove the new, shiny, silver car when we went to western Canada to see the Rocky Mountains and other tourist traps along the highway. We saw little wild animals, but not a single bear; however, the wild flowers had been blossoming.

Mhel155 said...

Tim and I drove the new, shiny, silver car to Western Canada to see the Rocky Mountains and other tourist traps along the highway. We saw little wild animals, but not a single bear. However, the wild flowers were blossoming.

SabrinaD155 said...

Tim and I drove the new, shiny silver car to western Canada to see the Rocky Mountains and to stop at some tourist traps along the highway, but we saw very few wild animals and no bears; however, the wild flower were blooming.

SabrinaD155 said...

I am questioning whether shiny silver needs a hypen as shiny is modifiying silver I would think that it does in fact need a hypen. Let me know Michael :)
Tim and I drove the new, shiny-silver car to western Canada to see the Rocky Mountains and to stop at some tourist traps along the highway, but we saw very few wild animals and no bears; however, the wild flower were blooming.

SabrinaD155 said...

Tim and I drove the new, shiny-silver car to Western Canada to see the Rocky Mountains and to stop at some tourist traps along the highway, but we saw very few wild animals and no bears; however, the wild flower were blooming.

Western refering to a place not a direction therefore it needs to be capitalized.

Michael said...

Sabrina, no hyphen is necessary as you are (probably) not constructing a compound modifier. If you added a hyphen, you would be making the silver (rather than the car) shiny. That is, you would be saying that the car was was a shiny kind of silver!

As for the other answers, I still see some errors.

I will post the solution soon.