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@rufustheduck Thank you, love this, makes this hard point of grammar fun. Although English is my native language I am always sorry for those who have to learn it.
@RHW thank you! That's always been my objective when teaching it - because you're right, it can be mystifying for learners
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You may know me from all the cat pictures I post. But I'm also an English teacher
Let me tell you how a sentence can have 11 HADs in a row and still be correct
(Also, Max makes a brief appearance in this video)
@rufustheduck that is great… I love these specific characteristics of different languages:)
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@DrJLecter well, I never met my dad, so maybe....
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@rufustheduck that is great… I love these specific characteristics of different languages:)
@kgertz me too!
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You may know me from all the cat pictures I post. But I'm also an English teacher
Let me tell you how a sentence can have 11 HADs in a row and still be correct
(Also, Max makes a brief appearance in this video)
@rufustheduck @rufustheduck James, while John had had "had had", had had "had had had had had had had had had had had". "Had had had had had had had had had had had" had had even more of an effect on the teacher.
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@Sagesse wonderful! I'm going to have to learn German just to be able to say this
@rufustheduck @Sagesse one can even say "wenn hinter Fliegen Fliegen fliegen, fliegen Fliegen Fliegen nach"
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@rufustheduck @rufustheduck James, while John had had "had had", had had "had had had had had had had had had had had". "Had had had had had had had had had had had" had had even more of an effect on the teacher.
@FenTiger Extraordinary sentence!
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You may know me from all the cat pictures I post. But I'm also an English teacher
Let me tell you how a sentence can have 11 HADs in a row and still be correct
(Also, Max makes a brief appearance in this video)
@rufustheduck Perfect! Well done!
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You may know me from all the cat pictures I post. But I'm also an English teacher
Let me tell you how a sentence can have 11 HADs in a row and still be correct
(Also, Max makes a brief appearance in this video)
@rufustheduck Haha, I love this
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You may know me from all the cat pictures I post. But I'm also an English teacher
Let me tell you how a sentence can have 11 HADs in a row and still be correct
(Also, Max makes a brief appearance in this video)
@rufustheduck
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You may know me from all the cat pictures I post. But I'm also an English teacher
Let me tell you how a sentence can have 11 HADs in a row and still be correct
(Also, Max makes a brief appearance in this video)
One time, when one of my kids was early grade school age, we figured out a way to create sentences consisting solely of an arbitrarily large number of squash.
Squash! — “Squeeze!” Or “Look. A vegetable!”
Squash squash! — Squeeze vegetables!
Squash squash squash — Vegetables squeeze vegetables.
Squash squash squash squash! — Squeeze vegetables that other vegetables squeeze!
Squash squash squash squash squash —Vegetables squeeze vegetables that squeeze vegetables.It’s pretty easy to see how this generalizes to truly ridiculous amounts of squash.
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You may know me from all the cat pictures I post. But I'm also an English teacher
Let me tell you how a sentence can have 11 HADs in a row and still be correct
(Also, Max makes a brief appearance in this video)
@rufustheduck It's not correct as shown, because it is missing essential punctuation.
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@rufustheduck It's not correct as shown, because it is missing essential punctuation.
"if you say" - verbal punctuation is literally the point of this video, but we don't say "quote" or "comma" we just indicate it - so that sentence is correct in that it is every word that will come out of your mouth.
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"if you say" - verbal punctuation is literally the point of this video, but we don't say "quote" or "comma" we just indicate it - so that sentence is correct in that it is every word that will come out of your mouth.
@deirdrebeth @rufustheduck
But without the written punctuation, one wouldn't know how to say it, such that it would make sense to a listener. I still maintain that the written form, without punctuation, is not a valid sentence. -
One time, when one of my kids was early grade school age, we figured out a way to create sentences consisting solely of an arbitrarily large number of squash.
Squash! — “Squeeze!” Or “Look. A vegetable!”
Squash squash! — Squeeze vegetables!
Squash squash squash — Vegetables squeeze vegetables.
Squash squash squash squash! — Squeeze vegetables that other vegetables squeeze!
Squash squash squash squash squash —Vegetables squeeze vegetables that squeeze vegetables.It’s pretty easy to see how this generalizes to truly ridiculous amounts of squash.
@dpnash I love this!
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@deirdrebeth @rufustheduck
But without the written punctuation, one wouldn't know how to say it, such that it would make sense to a listener. I still maintain that the written form, without punctuation, is not a valid sentence.@brouhaha @deirdrebeth Hello my friends!
I think you're both correct. I decided to focus on pronunciation in the video so it wouldn't be too long - but punctuation IS important, so I added it to the sentence at the end when I say it correctly, so you can see how the two work together.
I hope you're having a wonderful day
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You may know me from all the cat pictures I post. But I'm also an English teacher
Let me tell you how a sentence can have 11 HADs in a row and still be correct
(Also, Max makes a brief appearance in this video)
@rufustheduck Amazing!
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