Tom knows the timing of her mother.

[tufguy]

"Tom knows the time of her mother coming back from her office."

"Tom knows the timing of her mother coming back from her office."

Please check.

 

[Raymott]

Tom knows the time of his mother's return from her office.
Tom knows when his mother [usually] returns from her office.

Tom is a male name -> "his mother", unless you're not referring to Tom's own mother.

 

[tufguy]

Sorry, I know it's a male name but it happened mistakenly.

 

[tufguy]

Correction for post# 1.

"Tom knows the time of his mother coming back from her office."

"Tom knows the timing of his mother coming back from her office."

Please check.

 

[emsr2d2]

Did you notice that changing "her" to "his" was not the only change that Raymott made in post #2?

 

[Raymott]

tufguy has done this before. He asks a question, is corrected on a few items, then reposts his question with one or two changes. I've asked him before the purpose of this, but I can't remember if he responded.
I believe that it is actually a correction for the question, retaining the error that the post is primarily about, but fixing the typos, and not intended to be correct.

 

[emsr2d2]

Tufguy, you need to read all the responses and then combine the advice/corrections into your next post.

 

[tufguy]

Tufguy, you need to read all the responses and then combine the advice/corrections into your next post.

No, I thought that it was the correction post for the post# 1. So I didn't have to correct the sentences because those were my questions so I just changed "her" to "his". I forgot that I had to correct those sentences as well. Sorry again guys.

 

[tufguy]

Correction for post# 1.

"Tom knows the time of his mother's return from her office."

"Tom knows when his mother returns from her office."

Please check.

 

[emsr2d2]

They are now both grammatically correct. They both sound a little stilted. A natural version would be "Tom knows what time his mum gets home from work [every day]".

 

[Tdol]

Tom knows when his mother gets home from work.

 

[tufguy]

They are now both grammatically correct. They both sound a little stilted. A natural version would be "Tom knows what time his mum gets home from work [every day]".

What does "stilt" mean here? I checked its meaning but in no way I could find it relative to this situation.

 

[Rover_KE]

You should have looked up 'stilted'.

Click here.

 

[Tdol]

What does "stilt" mean here? I checked its meaning but in no way I could find it relative to this situation.

If a word or phrase is stilted, it is unnatural.