Fish And Chips

Permalink 06/11/07 12:35:33 pm, Categories: Misc.  

Here is a sentence that uses the word "and" 5 times in a row and is grammatically correct.

I want to put hyphens between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-And-Chips sign.

I read someone's expansion of that sentence and it blew my mind. You have to really think to see that this sentence is accurate. This one gets 21 repetitions of the word "and" and is accurate. Here's the sentence:

Wouldn't the sentence "I want to put hyphens between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-And-Chips sign" have been more clear 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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Comment from: Jon D [Visitor]
Yes, it would have been more clear. Using the word clearer is a usage problem and not a grammar problem. The second sentence is grammatically correct because it uses the plural form of "quotation mark", "quotation marks"; whereas the first sentence is not grammatically correct because it should have used the plural form of "hyphen," "hyphens."
PermalinkPermalink 06/11/07 @ 13:21
Comment from: patf [Member] Email · http://patf.net
@Jon D: You're right. I made the change in the post. thanks.
PermalinkPermalink 06/11/07 @ 14:14

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