Write the following sentences in appropriate format:

Question

The Uncle said, he would visit the medical store tomorrow and bought the medicine that Doctor prescribed.

Answer 1

There are a few ways to write this, depending on what you are trying to convey. Because the sentence starts The uncle said and then has a comma, my first thought was that this is dialogue. If so, then it would look like this (with no other changes):

The Uncle said, "he would visit the medical store tomorrow and bought the medicine that Doctor prescribed."

However, that does not address any of the other grammatical errors to the rest of the sentence, which does not make sense. He would visit and bought are tenses that don't match. While they are both past tense, the first one is past progressive while the second is past. This also makes you wonder how it's possible to write a sentence in past tense about an action happening in the future (visiting the store tomorrow).

Therefore, the part in quotations needs to change tense showing that he needs to change to future tense, so would should be will, bought should be buy.

Here is how the new sentence looks:

The Uncle said, "he will visit the medical store tomorrow and buy the medicine that Doctor prescribed."

Already it is sounding so much better!! However, we are not quite done.

Let's take a closer look at the second part of the sentence: and buy the medicine that Doctor prescribed.

It's a common mistake that people use the word and when they should actually be using to. If we change that word, then to buy becomes an infinitive and part of the subject of the second half of the sentence. The verb is now prescribed.

Let's take a look at our new sentence:

The Uncle said, "he will visit the medical store tomorrow to buy the medicine that Doctor prescribed."

There are two more issues. Uncle and doctor are not proper nouns. Therefore they should not be capitalized. The only time you would capitalize them is if they were followed my a name, for example: Uncle David and Doctor Smith. Since there are not a names following them, they are lower case.

That makes this the sentence in the final form, if it is supposed to be dialogue:

The uncle said, "he will visit the medical store tomorrow to buy the medicine that the doctor prescribed."

If this sentence is not dialogue, all of the same rules about verb tense, infinitives, and capitalization from above still apply. Remove the quotation marks. At that point there is only an extra comma at the beginning after the word said that is not needed. Remove it and the sentence is perfect.

The uncle said he will visit the medical store tomorrow to buy the medicine that the doctor prescribed.

I hope this answered your question. If you are still confused, please let me know!