thank you for taking the time to take a look at my question! I am currently a teacher of English and an ex-in-company translator in startups. Now I am having a question about the correctness of a question in a test. Here is the question as follows.
Some people think that paper is too soft to make a box and that it is better to use plastic or metal. Actually, these things are stronger than paper, but we can make paper stong when we put many pieces of paper together.
The last bolded sentence is the issue.
I think we can rewrite this like....
we can make strong paper when we put many pieces of paper together.
However, the answer booklet says (in Japanese),
We cannot use the phrase make strong paper because this usage weakens the implication that paper is originally weak until it is fortified by putting many pieces of it together.
However, I believe that it is such a tunnel-visioned and poor explanation.
Here is my idea. We can safely say,
We can make a strong team when we work together.
instead of
We can make the team strong when we work together.
And above two sentences mean something totally identical.
Please give me your idea or advice regarding the aforementioned problem.
we can make paper strong when we put many pieces of paper together.
and
we can make strong paper when we put many pieces of paper together.
Are both of them grammatically correct?