Grammar Thoughts

A few grammar thoughts to get your day started.

• Can you find the the mistake?  A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  K  L
• I hate that awkward moment when I spell a common word correctly, but it looks so wrong that I stare at it forever, questioning its existence.
• The past, the present, and the future walked into a bar.  It was tense.
• The longest English word is “smiles” because it has a whole mile between its first and last letters.
• Nothing makes me more productive than the last minute.
• Tense? Moody? Irregular?  You must be a verb.
• It’s called reading.  It’s how people install new software into their brains.
• You know you’re a grammar nerd when you know how to use a semicolon correctly.
• You had me at the proper use of “you’re.”
• An amazing sentence: I do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly perplexing handwriting; nevertheless, extraordinary pharmaceutical intellectuality counterbalancing indecipherability transcendentalizes intercommunication’s incomprehensibleness.  Why? This is a sentence where the first word is one letter long, the second word is two letters long, the third word is three letter long, and so on.

p.s. Answer to the first question: There are two “the” in the sentence.

Nancy Roe
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