Tuesday, June 4, 2013

GRAMMAR QUESTION, June 4th, 2013



Correct the errors in the following sentence:

The exotic imported sports dark red car has been driving to fast when it'd skid of the road and the passenger too young women is injured serious.

Remember that there are many possible correct answers.

13 comments:

Laurie M said...

The dark red sports car (an exotic import), travelling at an excessive speed, skidded off the road resulting in serious injury to two young women.

Veronica Baig said...

LAURIE: That's an excellent solution:-)

jocelynB said...

The exotic, dark red sports car had been driven too fast when it skidded off the road and the passengers, two young women,were seriously injured.

Anonymous said...

Robert Smale said.

The exotic, imported, dark red, sports car. Had been driving to fast, when it'd skid off the road. Two young women passenger, were serious injured.

LeighaM said...

The dark red exotic imported sports car had been driving too fast when it skidded off the road; unfortunately, the passengers, two young women, were seriously injured.

Veronica Baig said...

JOCELYN:Almost, there's a missing comma and you forgot one of the adjectives;-)
ROBERT:You have a couple of sentence fragments in there, and you need to think about adjective word order; also think about subject-verb agreement:-)
LEIGHA:There are three things to think about--adjective word order, the subject of the verb, and punctuation;-)

jocelyn b said...

The dark red, exotic ,imported, sports car had been driven too fast when it skidded off the road and the passengers, two young women, were seriously injured

LeighaM said...


The exotic imported dark red sports car had been driven too fast when it skidded off the road; unfortunately, the passengers, two young women, were seriously injured.

LeighaM said...


The exotic, imported, dark red sports car had been driven too fast when it skidded off the road; unfortunately, the passengers, two young women, were seriously injured.

Vivien said...

The exotic, imported, dark red sport car was being driven too fast when it skidded off the road and injured the passenger and two young women seriously.

Veronica Baig said...

JOCELYN: You have changed the adjective word order and that doesn't help;-)
LEIGHA: I'm glad you remembered those commas:-)
VIVIEN: Almost--check for a word form error;-)

Unknown said...

The exotic, imported dark red sports car had been driven too fast when it skidded off the road, and the passengers were seriously injured and two young women, too.

Veronica Baig said...

YOUNG LAN: Note that you have changed the meaning--the passengers are the 2 young women;-)