Pauls always been borrowing his red stylish sporty-looking
newer car to his brother who’s lending it while his old battered rust-spotted
white vehicle is in the garage for repairing.
1. Name: For some of you, the name “Paul” is unfamiliar, and
you didn’t recognize that there is no “s” on the end; It doesn’t make sense to
make this an apostrophe s because neither the verb “is” or “has” works here and
there is no following noun that would make it possessive.
2. Word confusion:
lend and borrow--someone lends to you; you borrow from someone else.
3. Verb tense:
Given that the first verb should be “lend” and not “borrow” and there is a
sense of repetitive action up to and including the present, use either the
simple present tense--lends--or the present progressive “is lending”. If you
use the present progressive, then the adverb “always” places between the two
parts of the verb.
4. Adjective word
order: The rule for adjective word order is opinion, dimension, age, shape,
colour, origin, material: this produces 1) stylish, sporty-looking, newer, red
car; 2) battered, old, rust-spotted, white vehicle. Some of you were more
creative and grouped adjectives and then combined the groups with a
coordinating conjunction. That’s another good way to solve the problem.
5. Verb tense:
whether or not the simple present or present progressive tense is used for the
verb in the first clause, in the second clause, the verb which should be
“borrow” needs to be in the simple present tense (borrows). This means there is
no apostrophe s attached to “who”.
6. Word form: after
“for” do not use the gerund, use the basic noun form either singular or plural.
Sample answer: Paul
always lends his stylish, sporty-looking, newer, red car to his brother who
borrows it while his battered, old, rust-spotted, white vehicle is in the
garage for repairs.
