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Ju

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His handwriting is very poor that I can't read.

Can I say:
His handwriting is "awful or careless or illegible or scratchy or sloppy or scribbled"?
 

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The original sentence is ungrammatical. Did you write it yourself?

I'd say 'His handwriting is so poor that I can't read it', or 'His handwriting is awful/terrible/illegible; I can't read it'.
 

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Can I say:
His handwriting is "awful" or "careless" or "illegible" or "scratchy" or "sloppy" or "scribbled"?
See the correct use of quotation marks above.
 

Ju

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The original sentence is ungrammatical. Did you write it yourself?

I'd say 'His handwriting is so poor that I can't read it', or 'His handwriting is awful/terrible/illegible; I can't read it'.

Yes, I wrote it by myself and I understand my mistake now.
 

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What would you mean by careless- it means that he might use the wrong word, spell something incorrectly, etc. It doesn't necessarily make it impossible to read.
 
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