Re: Grammaticaly correct sentences (or not...)

At 11:58:04 on Mon, 24 Mar 2008, myname <lslfkjs@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>Hello,
>
>as part of the writing of a program that will check grammar,
>we have to use a set of correct and incorrect sentences:
>
>1) Two first class honors Carl wants among his senior sophister students
>this year
>2) It is a picnic that Mel wants Val to try to enjoy
>3) It is a picnic that Mel thinks is going to be enjoyed by Mel
>4) It is a picnic that Mel thinks are going to be enjoyed by Mel
>5) It is a picnic that Mel thinks that is going to be enjoyed by Mel
>6) Mel thinks a picnic is going to be enjoyed by Mel
>7) Mel thinks that a picnic is going to be enjoyed by Mel
>8) To Mel Leslie seems to want to give a book
>9) It is Mel that Leslie seems to want to give a book to
>10) It is a book that Leslie seems to want to give to Mel

1. Incorrect order - try "Carl wants two first class honours among his 
senior sophister students this year".
2. Clumsy, but grammatically correct
3. Incorrect duplication of "Mel" - try "It is a picnic that Mel thinks 
s/he is going to enjoy"
4. Incorrect - "are" is wrong
5. Incorrect - second "that" is wrong
6. Incorrect duplication of "Mel" - try "Mel thinks a picnic is going to 
be enjoyable"
7. Incorrect duplication of "Mel" - try "Mel thinks that a picnic is 
going to be enjoyable"
8. Incorrect order - try "Leslie seems to want to give a book to Mel"
9. Incorrect order - try "It is Mel to whom Leslie seems to want to give 
a book"
10. Grammatically correct.

Hope this helps!
-- 
Molly Mockford
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