Learn English – The car smoke is stink

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A car went and the smoke flew in our house.

"The car smoke is stink."

"The exhaust smoke is stink.

He told me.

It should be car smoke or exhaust smoke when we telling someone the stink was came from the a car's exhaust?

Best Answer

Focusing purely on how to refer to the stuff that comes out of the car: "*exhaust smoke" is redundant, and sounds wrong to me. "car smoke" is okay, but isn't the idiomatic way to say it. In American English, better is "car exhaust" or just "exhaust" - that's the more typical way to refer to it.

Additionally, "is stink" isn't grammatical. You could say "stinks" (as a verb), or "is stinky" ("is" + adjective).

So, the closest American English match to your examples would be one of these two:

The car exhaust stinks

The car exhaust is stinky

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