Wednesday, July 21, 2010

GRAMMAR QUESTION, July 21st, 2010

Correct the errors in the following sentence:

Seeing that starbucks’ opens at safeway stores now and they had also opened at many book stores’;  I wonder if it would now loose customer’s from their regular outlets.

10 comments:

neilm said...

Now that Starbucks is open in Safeway stores as well as bookstores, they could lose customers from their regular outlets.

Veronica Baig said...

NEIL: This a good contribution--now see if you can find a rather tricky agreement problem that is still there;-)

Anonymous said...

Now that Starbucks are open at Safeway as well as many bookstores, I wonder if they would lose customers from their regualr outlets.

Veronica Baig said...

ANONYMOUS: There are some agreement issues herem and check your modal verb usage;-) PLEASE IDENTIFY YOURSELF--first name (choose the Name/URL option button from the menu available when you post a comment. If there's no name, I can't give you bonus points;-)

Anonymous said...

Now that Starbucks is open at Safeways as well as many bookstores, I wonder if it is losing customers from their regular stores.

If I still don't get this one, would you give me a big hint?

Anyway, can I ask something else that is not related to this post in this blog? I am a student of AU.

Veronica Baig said...

ANONYMOUS: That's a good solution:-) The answers are always provided in the Course Announcement section of the next "edition". PLEASE IDENTIFY YOURSELF--if you are a student in Engl 189, you should get credit for your answers. If not, it's all right, but I have a lot of students who start out as "anonymous" by accident, so please let me know your situation.

neilm said...

How about:

With Starbucks opening in Safeway stores in addition to bookstores, they could lose customers at their regular outlets.

Veronica Baig said...

NEIL:That tricky agreement problem is still there;-)

Colin Hatch said...

With Starbucks opening in Safeway and book stores, they could lose customers at their regular stores.

Veronica Baig said...

COLIN: Yes, but the "problems" are already out there in the Course Announcement. See the new blog site--the link is in the welcome message on this blog;-)