A Really Bad Grammar Pun
Puns are supposed to be bad, right? Well, this one’s about grammar, so I feel compelled to post it. Sorry, no lesson.
—Except maybe to point out that all puns are linguistic in some way. this one uses homonyms.
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Another Example of Comparative Versus Superlative
The rule is that if you compare two things, you should use the comparative (“better”), and if you’re comparing three or more things, use the superlative (“best”). This guy gets it wrong. Go thou and don’t do likewise!
Someone Else Wrote This Post
Namely, XKCD, which I’ve mentioned in the past. I highly recommend the site.
A Good Example of an Incorrect Verb Form
You know about “go, went, gone” right? How about “show, showed, shown”? Last panel: I suspect a lot of folks wouldn’t have noticed that. After all, we say “snuck” a lot when we should have said “sneaked.” Maybe I’m just being a curmudgeon.
Another Bad Elipsis
The cartoonist figures it’s bad, anyway; hence the humor. The cartoonist wants “eat more bananas than they eat monkeys,” figuring you’d think “eat more bananas than monkeys do.”
