English Lesson Survey 4/14/05

Instructions:   Write your ideas or answers to any or all of the questions.*

*Question #8:  It is mandatory you give an answer to this question.                           

Correct answers will be given at a later date.  

Have fun!

TEST QUESTIONS:

What makes the following sentences some the strangest sentences in the English language?

1. I never said she stole my money.

2. All the faith he had had had had no effect on the outcome of his life.

5. A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed

6. Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs.

8. A woman without her man is nothing.       (Correctly punctuate this sentence)

9. “I do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly perplexing handwriting; nevertheless, extraordinary pharmaceutical intellectuality, counterbalancing indecipherability, transcendentalizes intercommunications’ incomprehensibleness.”

11. Read rhymes with lead, and read rhymes with lead, but read and lead don’t rhyme, and neither do read and lead.

13. You have just begun reading the sentence you have just finished reading.

20. Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.   (What does this sentence say?)


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1)   1. I never said she stole my money.

 
2)   2. All the faith he had had had had no effect on the outcome of his life.

 
3)   5. A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed

 
4)   6. Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs.

 
5)   8. A woman without her man is nothing. (Correctly punctuate this sentence)

 
6)   9. “I do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly perplexing handwriting; nevertheless, extraordinary pharmaceutical intellectuality, counterbalancing indecipherability, transcendentalizes intercommunications’ incomprehensibleness.”

 
7)   11. Read rhymes with lead, and read rhymes with lead, but read and lead don’t rhyme, and neither do read and lead.

 
8)   13. You have just begun reading the sentence you have just finished reading.

 
9)   20. Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo. (What does this sentence say?)