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?
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Sign up to join this communityA 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?
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
If your doubt is whether to use 'car' or 'exhaust', then both sound fine to me, and I would know that you were referring to the smoke produced by the car, provided you say it at that moment, and I'm standing with you/ or am aware of the car that just went by.
But from the grammar point of view, I'll modify these sentence, a little bit, to make it sound better:
- The car smoke stinks. (Present)
- The car smoke is stinking. (Present Continuous)
- The car smoke stank. (Past)
- The exhaust smoke stinks. (Present)
- The exhaust smoke is stinking. (Present Continuous)
- The exhaust smoke stank. (Past)
You could also try "The car's smoke ..." and the "The exhaust's smoke..."
If you are trying to tell another person what has caused a smell, you could do it like this:
That smell is car exhaust.
That smell you're smelling is car exhaust.
What you're smelling is car exhaust.
You are smelling car exhaust.
The odor you're smelling -- it's car exhaust.
The stink comes from car exhaust.
A car's exhaust caused the smell.
The house reeks of car exhaust.
The house smells like car exhaust now.
The smoke from that car stinks!
The smoke from that car is stinky! (a more childlike way to say it)
That car's exhaust fumes stink! ("fumes" are plural)
That car's exhaust fumes are stinky!
So either "smoke (from a/the/that/this car)" or "exhaust fumes".