Sunday, March 11, 2012

A Joke

Just a joke I read the other day:

Seven Bar Jokes Involving Grammar and Punctuation
by Erick K. Auld

1. A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves.
2. A dangling modifier walks into a bar. After finishing a drink, the bartender asks it to leave.
3. A question mark walks into a bar?
4. Two quotation marks "walks into" a bar.
5.A gerund and an infinitive* walk into a bar, drinking to drink.
6. The bar was walked into by the passive voice.
7. Three intransitive verbs walk into a bar. They sit. They drink. They leave.



It cracked me up, especially the passive voice. Perhaps we can add more. At least it can be ended by "a full stop walks into the bar and leaves. The end."
*the only thing bothering me here: maybe it should be specified as "infinitive with to" (opposed to those without to)