http://www.englishforums.com/English/EslGeneralEnglishGrammar-Questions/Forum12.htmAsk your questions on grammar and get your sentence checked. We answer lots of different types of general English grammar questions here. <font color=red>DO NOT post paragraphs and compositions here. Post them in our <a href="http://www.englishforums.com/English/EssayReportCompositionWriting/Forum9.htm"><b>Essay, Report and Composition Writing Forum</b></a>.</font>enXMOD (Build: 3715.30106)http://www.englishforums.com/English/GrammarAndVocabulary/kkhkx/post.htm#886602Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:33:56 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:886602Clive0http://www.englishforums.com/English/GrammarAndVocabulary/kkhkx/post.htm#886602http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-886602.xmlHi, What is the correct form of the following sentences? (a) I was very upset when the other car hardly missed me. &#39;Hardly&#39; suggests it hit me slightly. I&#39;d say &#39;barely&#39;. (b) He bought a Swedish designer blue big sofa. Too many adjectives in front of the noun. The standard sequence of adjectives is big blue , not blue big. I suggest &#39;He bought a big blue sofa by a Swedish designer&#39;. (c) I like to invite you to my birthday party. &gt;&gt;&gt; That&#39;s why I invite you every year. I would like to invite you to my birthday party. &gt;&gt;&gt; It&#39;s next Monday. Please come. Best wishes, Clivehttp://www.englishforums.com/English/GrammarAndVocabulary/kkhkx/post.htm#886568Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:05:08 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:886568ferdis1http://www.englishforums.com/English/GrammarAndVocabulary/kkhkx/post.htm#886568http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-886568.xml(a) I was very upset when the other car hardly missed me. So the car hit you? I believe an idiomatic expression here is a &#39;near-miss&#39;, but I&#39;d prefer something like, &quot;... when the other car almost hit me.&quot; (a near-miss is a hit in my book...) (b) He bought a Swedish designer blue big sofa. &quot;He bought a big, blue Swedish-designer sofa.&quot; (c) I like to invite you to my birthday party. &quot;I&#39;d like to invite you ...&quot; is more polite I think.http://www.englishforums.com/English/GrammarAndVocabulary/kkhkx/post.htmFri, 04 Sep 2009 13:49:29 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:886547Anonymous2http://www.englishforums.com/English/GrammarAndVocabulary/kkhkx/post.htmhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-886547.xmlWhat is the correct form of the following sentences? (a) I was very upset when the other car hardly missed me. (b) He bought a Swedish designer blue big sofa. (c) I like to invite you to my birthday party.