Edmond,
A personal footnote:  I once offered a traditional grammar class the
alternatives of taking a full final exam or punctuating that sentence.
No one took me up on the offer.
tj



On Monday 03/21/2011 at 4:57 am, Edmond Wright   wrote:
> Your version, T. J., is exactly what my English teacher produced, 
> except
> that she had a full-stop ('period') where you have a semicolon.  I 
> prefer
> the semicolon.
>
> Edmond
>
>
>
>
>>
>> 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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