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Grammar Lesson - Read Carefully


Curley Fryes

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For all mygrammatically correct friends.

 

On his 74th birthday, a man got a gift certificatefrom his wife. The certificate paid for a visit to a medicine man living on a

nearby reservation who was rumored to have awonderful cure for erectile dysfunction.

 

After being persuaded, he drove to thereservation, handed his ticket to the medicine man, and wondered what he was infor.

 

The old man handed a potion to him, and with agrip on his shoulder, warned, 'This is a powerful medicine. You take only ateaspoonful, and then say '1-2-3.'

 

When you do, you will become more manly than youhave ever been in your life, and you can perform as long as you want."

 

The man was encouraged. As he walked away, heturned and asked, "How do I stop the medicine from working?"

"Your partner must say '1-2-3-4,'" heresponded, "but when she does, the medicine will not work again until thenext full moon."

 

He was very eager to see if it worked so he wenthome, showered, shaved, took a spoonful of the medicine, and then invited hiswife to

join him in the bedroom.

 

When she came in, he took off his clothes andsaid, "1-2-3!" Immediately, he was the manliest of men.

 

His wife was excited and began throwing off herclothes, and then she asked, "What was the 1-2-3 for?"

 

And that, boys and girls, is why we should neverend our sentences with a preposition, because we could end up with a dangling

participle.

 

 

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