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Bassim

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Please, would you take a look at these two sentences and correct them.

1. "Do you have a pound or two?" asked her a beggar who was haggard and smelled badly.
2. "Do you have a pound or two?" a beggar asked her,who, judging by his clothes did not wash for months.
 

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Please, would you take a look at these two sentences and correct them.

1. "Do you have a pound or two?" asked her a beggar who was haggard and smelled badly. (You've got part of this backwards. It's not "asked her a beggar", it's, "a beggar asked her".
2. "Do you have a pound or two?" a beggar asked her,who, judging by his clothes [STRIKE]did [/STRIKE] had not washed for months.
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Please, would you take a look at these two sentences and correct them.

1. "Do you have a pound or two?" asked her a beggar who was haggard and smelled bad.
2. "Do you have a pound or two?" a beggar asked her,who, judging by his clothes did not wash for months.

You also need to use an adjective. not an adverb.
 
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