Do You think English is Easy ?
Us E-S-L folks will love this one.
Do You Think English is Easy???
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.
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.
1
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 comeUP? Why
do we speak UP and why are the officersUP 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 lockUP the house and some guys fix UP the old car. At other times the little word has a 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 thisUP is confusing: A drain must be openedUP because it is stopped UP . We open UP a store in the morning but we close itUP at night.
We seem to be pretty mixed UP aboutUP! 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.
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 and the last thing you do at night? U-P.