Correct the errors in the following sentence overheard in the supermarket:
A visitor to Vietnam must to remember taking their anti-malaria medicine regular to be affective preventing them from sickness and it would spoil the trip.
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Visitors to Vietnam must remember to take anti-malaria medicine regularly in order to be affective, so it could prevent the sickness and it wouldn’t spoil the trip.
A visitor to Vietnam must take their anti-malaria medicine regularly, this will prevent them from getting sick and spoiling their trip.
Irena: This is a good attempt, and you have solved some of the problems; think about article usage, word confusion,and rewording the last two clauses;-)
Anthony: Pretty good--now think about agreement issues;-)
Visitors to Vietnam must remember to take their anti-malaria medicine regularly in order to be affective. This would prevent sickness, and it would not spoil the trip.
Irena: Better, but there is still some word confusionn and a missing subject.
A visitor to Vietnam must take anti-malaria medicine regularly, which can effectively prevent him or her from being sick and spoiling the trip.
Ying: Grammatically--yes--but it is a little awkward;-)
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