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Reasons People Hate the English Language : 

Reasons People Hate the English Language

How on Earth do you say that word? : 

How on Earth do you say that word? At the Army base, a bass was painted on the head of a bass drum. A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line. After a number of Novocain injections, my jaw got number. He could lead if he would get the lead out. How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend? I did not object to the object. I had to subject the subject to a series of tests. I spent last evening evening out a pile of dirt. Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present. The buck does funny things when the does are present. The bandage was wound around the wound. The farm was used to produce produce. The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse. The insurance was invalid for the invalid. The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert. The wind was too strong to wind the sail. There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row. They were too close to the door to close it. To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow. Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear. We must polish the Polish furniture. When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.

A Poem About Plurals : 

A Poem About Plurals We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes; but the plural of ox became oxen not oxes. One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese, yet the plural of moose should never be meese. You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice; yet the plural of house is houses, not hice. If the plural of man is always called men, why shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen? If I spoke of my foot and show you my feet, and I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet? If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth, why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth? Then one may be that, and three would be those, yet hat in the plural would never be hose, and the plural of cat is cats, not cose. We speak of a brother and also of brethren, but though we say mother, we never say methren. Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him, but imagine the feminine, she, shis and shim.