A few days ago
Would this sentence be correct?
If the question was to add punctation to create a clear meaning and this was the sentence :
My three sisters boyfriends are pretty swell fellas except for the one guys habit of beat-boxing at the dinner table.
I changed the sentence so it looked like this:
My three sisters’ boyfriends are pretty swell fellas. Except for the one guy’s habit of beat-boxing at the dinner table.
Would that be gramatically correct? (Even if it sounds awkward)
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A few days ago
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Sounds better than the first one. Try “Except for one who has a habit of beat-boxing at the dinner table”
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A few days ago
The original wasn’t too bad.
My sisters’ boyfriends are pretty swell fellas except for the one guy’s habit of beat-boxing at the dinner table.
It just needed a pair of apostrophes.
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A few days ago
No. make it
fellas, except for
(comma, little e)
You have created a sentence fragment out of the last clause.
Even better might be:
fellas, although I’m annoyed by one guy’s
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A few days ago
Exchange the full stop (period) after ‘fellas’ with a comma. Your second ‘sentence’ is incomplete and, therefore, should be part of the one-and-only sentence, punctuated by a comma.
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A few days ago
The second sentence that you wrote is not a complete sentence, try using a comma instead of a period. Other than that, it looks fine.
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A few days ago
I would prefer to put a comma in front of except. It will flow better. Good apostrophe placement.
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A few days ago
It’s fine
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