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Jigneshbharati Posted 6 years ago
Grammar

How is the car

An adjective is a word that describes something.

A red car (red is an adjective because it describes the car. How is the car? Red)
https://www.grammar.cl/english/compound-adjectives.htm
Does "how is the car" sound grammatically correct? What is the correct alternative that they should have used instead?
  

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Jigneshbharati Does "How is the car ? " sound grammatically correct? It is grammatically correct, but it is not a normal way of asking about a car's colour.

  • Jigneshbharati Does "How is the car ?
  • " sound grammatically correct?
  • It is grammatically correct, but it is not a normal way of asking about a car's colour.
  • ) It could be used, for example, after someone has had an accident, to ask about the general state or condition of the car.
  • A: How's the car?
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JigneshbharatiDoes "How is the car?" sound grammatically correct?

It is grammatically correct, but it is not a normal way of asking about a car's colour. (My feeling is that the author may not have meant to suggest that this question would be used in this way in normal English.) It could be used, for example, after

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