Need to write short essay on My Pet. | Need help

I am a beginner in French and want to write a short essay as a part of my assignment but I am not feeling confident about my grammer. Need help from somebody to edit following text for grammar.

mon chien s' appele alex. il est german shephard. il a huit mois. il est noir et brun. il aime ballon et mon
cartables. il parle fort. il aime dirige dans parc. il deteste avoir un bain. il dents sont grands et dengereux. il
a une blue laisse et une blue col. ils pet sont grands et fort. il oreille sont grand. quand il sommeile il regarde
joli. il comme a taquiner mon soer. il aussi comme a jeu avec chiens de la rue. il aime mon chien il le meilleur chien dans le monde.

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Permalink Reply by Neil Coffey on August 23, 2011 at 8:43pm

Thereare a few specific points where the word you've chosen isn't quite the one that would usually be used in French. For example, for "have a bath", speakers would tend to say prendre un bain.

However, a couple of overall things to try and correct:

- the word for "his"/"her" is son before a masculine word or word beginning with a vowel, sa before a feminine word, and ses before a plural. If you're not sure whether a word is 'masuline' or 'feminine', then a dictionary will tell you ("m" or "f"). So for example, "his teeth" would be "ses dents"; "his ears" would be "ses oreilles".

- adjectives need to "agree" with the thing they're talking about-- basically add an -e for feminine and an -s for plural (and -es for feminine plural if it comes up). You've got this right in some cases, e.g. grands, but not in all cases

- remember that adjectives usually go after the noun in French, and if it's a colour adjective, it basically always goes after the noun: so e.g. "une bleue laisse" is impossible (remember you even add the -e for the feminine of "bleu", even though it looks a bit strange).

See if you can correct your version using the above, and then we can give you some advice on the few remaining things.