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GRAMMATICAL ILLUSIONS

The following statements may look wrong at first glance, but theyre actually grammatically correct.
1. Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana.
2. I sometimes read read as read, when its supposed to be read as read.
3. You have just begun reading the sentence you just finished reading.
4. All the faith he had had had had no effect on his life
5. Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo. (Buffalo could be a place, a verb, or an
animal)
6.June and John were asked to write about their weekend. John wrote I had some ice cream over the
weekend . June wrote I had had some ice cream over the weekend. June, while John had had had, had had
had had. Had had, had been the correct answer.
7. Have you ever noticed that read rhymes with lead, and read rhymes with lead? Also, read and lead dont
rhyme. Neither do read and lead.
8. I see, said the blind man, as he picked up his hammer and saw.
9. This exceeding trifling witling, considering ranting criticizing concerning adopting fitting wording being
exhibiting transcending learning, was displaying, notwithstanding ridiculing, surpassing boasting swelling
reasoning, respecting correcting erring writing, and touching detecting deceiving arguing during debating.
10. Wouldnt be the sentence I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips
in my Fish-And-Chips sign have been clearer if quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between
Fish and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and Chips, as
well as after Chips?

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