What about eleven times "had"? I remember this from high school- (Yes- 60 years ago!)
Two boys, John and James wrote an essay; John, where James had had 'had', had had 'had had'. "Had had" had had the teachers approval. Bizarre language we use, eh? BTW- I, not being from US and therefore not really familiar with the verb 'to buffalo' meaning (I think!) to thwart, found the buffalo sentence very odd. Cheers K in OZ Keith Helgesen. Ph: (02) 62910787. Mob 0417-042171 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Froom Sent: Monday, 23 July 2007 3:39 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Finale] Prepositions Importance: Low > (World record for most prepositions at the end of a sentence, from a > child protesting an Australian bedtime story: "Mommy, what did you > bring that book that I didn't want to be read to out of about Down > Under up for?") A preposition poem: I lost a little preposition. It fell somewhere beneath my chair. I called aloud to it "perdition," Come on up out from down under there. My daughter brought it to her 3rd grade class, and was asked, for fun, to diagram the whole thing. David Froom _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
