Subject Verb Object, Right?

But we English speakers are rather used to other orders of those parts of speech. Third panel:

For one thing, it’s not a sentence; no verb—all three words are nouns. So she read it as “Customers: do the appreciation today” or something like that. How would you re-word the sign?

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Third panel. Whose life? Children! A plural! So the sentence should say “their lives” even though they no doubt do the risking one at a time.

Using “their” ought to strengthen the plural agreement.

English is relatively uninflected, so where the words are in a sentence makes a big difference. One rule is to put the verb as close as you can to the subject. Here’s and example of not doing this:

What??? The murder goes to auction?

You need two sentences here:

Rare ‘Ides of March’ dagger coin goes to auction. The coin was minted by Brutus after Julius Caesar’s murder. Make sure your writing is not easily misunderstood.

Here’s a picture of the coin:

For Example:

You don’t even need to put it between quotes.

Can you think of a noun that you can’t use as a verb?

Here’s the comic. Panel 1:

Using adjectives to modify verbs is common, so I didn’t notice this until a commenter pointed it out. She should have said “…heal more slowly.” After all, she teaches English.

Um, same mistake in panel 3.