Location of Modifiers Matters in English

Of course the humor in this comic lies in the bad location of the phrase in the last panel. Can you tell where it should go?

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Gasoline Alley does this occasionally. No lesson.

Well, these are all homonyms, though some make a distinction:

• homographs—words that have the same spelling
• homophones—words that have the same pronunciation

What she says:

They asked what the options are, not which option they preferred, so I think the correct conjunction is “and.”

I think it’s interesting that the cartoonist treated the word “family” as a plural. that’s more common in England than in the US.

Remember what a palindrome is? It’s something in writing that reads the same backwards and forwards. Here’s a comic about that:

Louie is the dog, but you probably figured that out.

Which do you prefer? The orange critter is an octopus with awfully short tentacles.

Or should I say tentacloi?