You may know me from all the cat pictures I post.
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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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