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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

Is this sentence grammatically correct?

"The restaurant has finished building."
  

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Anonymous Is this sentence grammatically correct? No. It says that the restaurant has built something.

  • Anonymous Is this sentence grammatically correct?
  • No.
  • It says that the restaurant has built something.
  • The restaurant is probably tired and it can rest now.
  • You could use this: They've finished building the restaurant.
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AnonymousIs this sentence grammatically correct?
No. It says that the restaurant has built something. The restaurant is probably tired and it can rest now.

You could use this: They've finished building the restaurant.

CJ
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No.

The restaurant (the subject in this sentence) has not finished building anything.

What you need to do is rearrange the sentence so that the word 'restaurant' is no longer the subject of the sentence. Remember that English is a 'subject-verb-object' language.

Perhaps:

'They have finished building the restaurant'

or

'The restaurant has been

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