It's National Grammar Day! Be kind to apostrophes.

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Re: It's National Grammar Day! Be kind to apostrophes.

« Reply #15 on: March 09, 2009, 09:53:22 AM »

I always ask my students what this sentence means....

A pretty little girls school.

No punctuation, but oh...how many meanings we can make it have with some simple marks.


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Re: It's National Grammar Day! Be kind to apostrophes.

« Reply #16 on: March 09, 2009, 10:20:55 AM »

"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo." is a grammatically correct sentence used as an example of how homonyms and homophones can be used to create complicated constructs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo


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