While visiting with Ben and Elsa, David Canfield, the composer and collector and brilliant host of their small group, posed us with a grammar challenge. You can make the following words a grammatically correct sentence by adding a total of 11 punctuation marks. Can you do it? I couldn't! Here are the words:
John where Jim had had had had had had had had had had had the teachers approval
Now, add eleven punctuation marks to make sense of it: don't change any words, remove any words, etc.
Good luck! I'll post the answer tomorrow.
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Can you move words around to change the order? Or does that count as changing the words...?
If so, I think I might have it...
John, where Jim had had "had," had had "had had;" "had had" had had the teacher's approval.
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Ok. That's my best. :)
No, Shannon: no moving around of any words. You must use them in that exact order. The only thing you can do is add punctuation :-)
And well done, Shannon! This is the exactly correct answer! I am VERY impressed!
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