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- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!prism!gt2841c
- From: gt2841c@prism.gatech.EDU (gt2841c)
- Newsgroups: rec.humor
- Subject: Re: long sentence: and
- Message-ID: <81598@hydra.gatech.EDU>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 01:11:26 GMT
- References: <dunn.727918115@helios>
- Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
- Lines: 28
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- In article <dunn.727918115@helios> dunn@helios.usq.EDU.AU (peter dunn) writes:
- >On the subject of long sentences with 11 'thats' and however many hads there were, try this one for five 'ands' in a row:
- >
- >There was the restuarant that served, among other things of course, ham and eggs for brekkie. To advertise, the owner put up a sign saying:
- >
- >"Ham, and, eggs"
- >
- [stuff deleted]
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- >"Oh," said the owner, "tell me how I should fix it."
- >"Easy," said the customer (let's make the customer female and even it up), " just take out the commas between 'ham' and 'and' and 'and' and 'eggs'."
- >
- >So there you have it.
-
- What we have is a sentence that lacks parallel structure. The grammatically
- correct version of your sentence is
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- "Easy," said the customer, "just take out the commas between 'ham' and
- 'and' , and between 'and' and 'eggs'."
-
- (I'm assuming that the customer is as anal about grammar as I am.)
-
- ObFarSideQuiz: "Well, this won't last long."
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- -Koushik "Oh, what an ass I am..."
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