friend Joel Correction: His friend Joel’s. The original sentence makes an illogical comparison comparing the car with Joel. What Correction: Compared are Hal’s sports car with Joel’s sports car. NOTE Sports car is an exception to the rule calling’ for a singular adjective before a noun.

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