Three Puns, but That’s Not the Lesson
rogersgeorge on January 8th, 2024
The humor is based on the misuse of three words, which I call puns. But the lesson is about the sentence. Can you tell what she got wrong?
Yes! She wrote a complex sentence, not a compound one. Ignoring the joke, the sentence is “When a horse jumps the fence” is a subordinate clause, and the rest of the sentence is the independent clause. “The feet go over first” is the main clause, and “then the tail” is an adverbial prepositional phrase. No compound anywhere!
How would you write those three words in a compound sentence?
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