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[Mr.Mohammed Galal]

Hi Teachers,

I asked the mechanic to repair my father's car. (My
father)

What about the following answers?

:

* My father's car is the one which I asked the mechanic to repair.

* My father's car was asked by me to be repaired by the mechanic.


* My fathers owns the car that I asked the mechanic to repair.

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Hi Teachers,

I asked the mechanic to repair my father's car. (My
father)

What about the following answers?

:

* My father's car is the one which I asked the mechanic to repair.

* My father's car was asked by me to be repaired by the mechanic.


* My fathers owns the car that I asked the mechanic to repair.

Dear Mr Galal
I think neither of them maintains the same meaning as the original one for the following reasons:
* My father's car is the one which I asked the mechanic to repair.
In this sentence the speaker knows that the addresse (the listener) has more than one car in mind, so the speakers is trying to specify which one of them he is talking about by using "is the one which I asked the mechanic to repair.". That's why he uses a defining relative clause.

* My father's car was asked by me to be repaired by the mechanic.
The second sentence is grammatically not correct. The mechanic is the one who was asked not the car. Verb ask here is not used in the same meaning of "demand". "Ask" here means "to put a question to someone, or to request an answer from someone ". So the object of the verb here must be "someone" not the car.

* My fathers owns the car that I asked the mechanic to repair.

The last sentence here assumes that the listener has asked the speaker about the owner of the car the speaker asked the mechanic to repair.
This sentence could be logical in the follwing mini-dialogue
Listener: Who owns the car that you asked the mechanic to repair?
Speaker: My fathers owns the car that I asked the mechanic to repair.
Best Regards