JOKES, LAUGHS, SMILES Too many “Hands” A language teacher asked: “What’s wrong in the sentence: “Mary didn’t go to school yesterday as she had had a birthday party.” A student replied: “if the sentence which had ‘had had’ had had ‘had’ it would have been correct.
More Exact Choice of Words A student asked the teacher, ‘What tense form should I use? How should I say- my composition is written or has been written by me. The teacher remarked,” Your grammar is all right but your vocabulary fails. You’d better say. “The composition had been copied by me.
UNIT XI What’s done can’t be undone
