Question
mom's and dads' volvo was demolished but both of them was only
slightly injured in the 7 car crash
Fix the sentence grammatically and say why you made the changes
slightly injured in the 7 car crash
Fix the sentence grammatically and say why you made the changes
Answers
GPT-4o mini
The corrected sentence is: "Mom's and Dad's Volvo was demolished, but both of them were only slightly injured in the seven-car crash."
### Changes Made:
1. **Capitalization**: "mom's" and "dad's" should be capitalized as "Mom's" and "Dad's." Proper nouns referring to specific people (like "Mom" and "Dad") are typically capitalized when used as names.
2. **Singular vs. Plural**: Changed "was" to "were" because "both of them" is plural, and thus requires the plural form of the verb.
3. **Hyphenation**: Added a hyphen in "seven-car crash" to indicate that "seven" is an adjective describing the noun "car," and when two or more words modify a noun together, they are often hyphenated.
4. **Punctuation**: Added a comma before "but" to properly separate the two independent clauses.
These changes improve the grammatical accuracy and clarity of the sentence.
### Changes Made:
1. **Capitalization**: "mom's" and "dad's" should be capitalized as "Mom's" and "Dad's." Proper nouns referring to specific people (like "Mom" and "Dad") are typically capitalized when used as names.
2. **Singular vs. Plural**: Changed "was" to "were" because "both of them" is plural, and thus requires the plural form of the verb.
3. **Hyphenation**: Added a hyphen in "seven-car crash" to indicate that "seven" is an adjective describing the noun "car," and when two or more words modify a noun together, they are often hyphenated.
4. **Punctuation**: Added a comma before "but" to properly separate the two independent clauses.
These changes improve the grammatical accuracy and clarity of the sentence.