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Can
you read these right the first time?
1) The bandage
was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was
used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to
refuse more refuse.
4) We must
polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the
lead out.
6) The soldier
decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there
is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the
present.
8) A bass
was painted on the head of the bass drum
9) When shot at, the dove dove into
the bushes.
10) I did not
object to the object.
11) The
insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a
row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door
to close it
14) The buck
does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell
down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer
taught his sow to sow.
17) The
wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18) Upon seeing the tear in the
painting I shed a tear.
19) I had to
subject the subject to a series of tests.
20) How can I intimate this to my
most intimate friend?
Let's face it -
English is a crazy
language.---------------------------
You lovers of the English language might enjoy this . . There is a two-letter
word that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that is
"UP"
It's
easy to understand
UP,
meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the
morning, why do we wake
UP?
At a meeting, why does a topic
come
UP?
Why do we speak
UP
and why are the officers
UP
for election and why is it
UP
to the secretary to write
UP a
report?
We
call
UP
our friends. And we use it to
brighten
UP
a room, polish
UP
the silver, we warm
UP
the leftovers and clean
UP
the kitchen. We lock
UP
the house and some guys fix
UP the old car. At other times the little word has real special
meaning. People stir
UP
trouble, line
UP
for tickets, work
UP
an appetite, and think
UP
excuses. To be dressed is one thing but to be
dressed
UP
is special.
And
this
UP
is confusing: A drain must be
opened
UP
because it is stopped
UP.
We open
UP
a store in the morning but we close
it
UP
at night.
We seem to be
pretty mixed
UP
about
UP!
To be knowledgeable about the proper uses
of
UP,
look the word UP
in the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it
takes
UP
almost 1/4th of the page and can
add
UP
to about thirty definitions. If you
are
UP to
it, you might try building
UP
a list of the many ways
UP
is used. It will take
UP
a lot of your time, but if you don't
give
UP,
you may wind
UP
with a hundred or more. When it threatens to rain, we say it is
clouding
UP.
When the sun comes out we say it is
clearing
UP.
When it rains,
it wets the earth and often messes things
UP.
When it doesn't
rain for awhile, things
dry
UP.
Fess
UP...you like this!
One could go on
and on, but I'll wrap
it
UP,
for now my time is
UP,
so............ Time to shut
UP.....!
Oh...one more
thing:
What is the
first thing you do in the morning &the last thing you do at night?
U-P
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