Tuesday 20 March 2012

IT'S ENGLISH, BELIEVE IT OR NOT!


Sometimes I think it's a good job I learned English before I realised how difficult it was! 

I think I could use this for a good, if somewhat hilarious, discussion with advanced students of English.  Thanks to my friend S who emailed this.

You think English is easy??


1) The bandage was 
wound around the wound.

2) The farm was used to 
produce produce.

3) The dump was so full that it had to 
refuse more refuse.

4) We must 
polish the Polish furniture.

5) He could 
lead if he would get the lead out.

6) The soldier decided to 
desert his dessert in the desert.

7) Since there is no time like the 
present, he thought it was time to present the present.

8) A 
bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.

9) When shot at, the 
dove dove into the bushes.

10) I did not 
object to the object.

11) The insurance was 
invalid for the invalid.

12) There was a 
row among the oarsmen about how to row.

13) They were too 
close to the door to close it.

14) The buck 
does funny things when the does are present.

15) A seamstress and a 
sewer fell down into a sewerline.

16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his 
sow to sow.

17) The 
wind was too strong to wind the sail.

18) Upon seeing the 
tear in the painting I shed a tear..

19) I had to 
subject the subject to a series of tests.

20) How can I 
intimate this to my most intimate friend?

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