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Thursday, March 5, 2015
*NUMBER CHANGE*
If the sentence is singular, change it to the plural; if it is plural, change it to the singular.
I was going to have pancakes for breakfast, but the milk was past its expiry date, and I didn't want to take any chances of getting sick, so I made bacon and eggs instead.
6 comments:
Eugenie C.155
said...
We were going to have a pancake for breakfast, but the milks were past their expiry dates, and we didn't want to take a chance of getting sick, so we made bacon and eggs instead.
I was going to have a pancake for breakfast, but the expiry dates on all the milk cartons were past, and I didn't want to take the chance of getting sick, so I made bacon and an egg instead.
We were going to have pancakes for breakfast, but the milk was past its expiry date, and I didn't want to take a chance of getting sick, so I made lots of bacon and egg instead.
My friends were going to have pancakes for breakfast, but two of their milks were past its expire dates, and they didn’t want to take any chances of getting sick, so they made bacon and eggs instead.
I was going to have a pancake for breakfast, but two of the milk cartons were past its expiry dates, and I didn't want to take a chance of getting sick, so I made lots of bacon and egg instead.
6 comments:
We were going to have a pancake for breakfast, but the milks were past their expiry dates, and we didn't want to take a chance of getting sick, so we made bacon and eggs instead.
I was going to have a pancake for breakfast, but the expiry dates on all the milk cartons were past, and I didn't want to take the chance of getting sick, so I made bacon and an egg instead.
We were going to have pancakes for breakfast, but the milk was past its expiry date, and I didn't want to take a chance of getting sick, so I made lots of bacon and egg instead.
My friends were going to have pancakes for breakfast, but two of their milks were past its expire dates, and they didn’t want to take any chances of getting sick, so they made bacon and eggs instead.
I was going to have a pancake for breakfast, but two of the milk cartons were past its expiry dates, and I didn't want to take a chance of getting sick, so I made lots of bacon and egg instead.
Eugenie (and Yosua), even in informal speech, "milks" sounds odd.
Alidap, you avoided the trap of pluralizing milk, but you should say "past the expiry date".
Sofia, "egg" is countable, so it requires an article ("an").
Melissa, see my comments above.
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