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 >> >> >> Dr. Edmond Wright >> 3 Boathouse Court >> Trafalgar Road >> Cambridge >> CB4 1DU >> England >> >> Email: [log in to unmask] >> Website: http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/elw33/ >> Phone [00 44] (0)1223 350256 >> >> To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web >> interface at: >> http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html >> and select "Join or leave the list" >> >> Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/ > > > To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at: > http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html > and select "Join or leave the list" > > Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/ To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html and select "Join or leave the list" Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/