Brad, where Craig had had "had had," had had "had"; "had had"
had had the examiner's approval.
This is one solution.

tj



On Sunday 03/20/2011 at 7:27 am, Edmond Wright   wrote:
> As an epilogue on the Past Perfect Controversy I thought I might 
> remind you
> of a well-known punctuation challenge.  My English teacher used to 
> produce
> this sort of thing in the last lessons before Christmas.
>
> The challenge is to make sense of the following by inserting 
> punctuation
> marks.  I have updated the names.
>
> 'Brad where Craig had had had had had had had had had had had the 
> examiner's
> approval.'
>
> I think we all, with one exception, would agree with the examiner.
>
> Edmond
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