Opinions on speaker use

Hi,

What's your opinion of this speaker's usage?





Her friend in Chester, his girlfriend, her parents bought her Porshe for her birthday.



He/she has grammar errors and a spelling mistake.



Best wishes, Clive

Clive
Hi,

What's your opinion of this speaker's usage?





Her friend in Chester, his girlfriend, her parents bought her Porshe for her birthday.



He/she has grammar errors and a spelling mistake.



Best wishes, Clive





Could you please point them out?

Hi,

How about you go first?

The spelling mistake, for example, should not be hard to find.

Clive

You could say that Porsche must be used, but have you checked out porshe on urban sites?

Hi,

Yes, I have.

I'd hesitate to tell my students that it 'must be used', but I wouldn't hesitate to refer to it as a spelling mistake.

Do you want to offer some comments on the grammar?

Best wishes, Clive

They bought her Porsche for her birthday.

I was thinking it might mean something like:
They bought her what is now her Porsche and gave it to her for her birthday.

It resembles structures like "I bought my Porsche one year ago" or "She bought her Porsche last year" = (She bought the Porsche she owns last year)

Clive, are those possible in

Hi,

They bought her Porsche for her birthday.

I was thinking it might mean something like:

They bought her what is now her Porsche and gave it to her for her birthday. Yes, that's how I'd understand your sentence. \

( She doesn't absolutely have to contimue to have it "now", depending on the context, but it has to have belonged t

I'd see it more as an answer to "for what (ocassion) did the buy her Porsche?".

Hi,

I'd see it more as an answer to "for what (ocassion) did the buy her Porsche?".



Yes, that's quite possible. Although if you want to look at the real-life details of how an actual conversation like that would go, there'd probably be a pronoun in the answer.

eg

A: For what occasion) did they buy her Porsche?

B: They bought it for her

Only where they got the money from.

But it will prove useful for those runs down the M56 (so to speak).

MrP