Reasons Why The English Language
Is Hard To Learn
We must polish the Polish furniture.
He could lead if he would get the
lead out.
The soldier decided to desert his
dessert in the desert.
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.
When shot at, the dove dove into the
bushes.
I did not object to the object.
The bandage was wound around the
wound.
The farm was used to produce produce.
The dump was so full that it had to
refuse more refuse.
The insurance was invalid for the
invalid.
There was a row among the oarsmen
about how to row.
They were too close to the door to
close it.
The buck does funny things when the
does are present.
A seamstress and a sewer fell down
into a sewer line.
To help with planting, the farmer
taught his sow to sow.
The wind was too strong to wind the
sail.
After a number of injections my jaw
got number.
Upon seeing the tear in the painting
I shed a tear.
I had to subject the subject to a
series of tests.
How can I intimate this to my most
intimate friend?
ISN'T
ENGLISH A FUNNY LANGUAGE ?
There is no egg in eggplant
or ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple...
Is cheese the plural of choose?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught?
If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
In what language do people recite at a play, and play at a recital?
Ship by truck, and send cargo by ship?
Have noses that run and feet that smell?
Park on driveways and drive on parkways?
Sweetmeats are candies, while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are
meat.
We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find
that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square, and a guinea
pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write, but fingers don't fing, grocers don't
groce, and hammers don't
ham?
If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth?
One goose, 2 geese. So, one moose, 2 meese?
One index, two indices?
How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell another?
When a house burns up, it burns
down.
You fill in a form by filling it out, and an alarm clock goes off by
going on.
When the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out,
they are invisible.
And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up this
essay, I end it?
.English muffins were not invented in England or French fries in France.
How can
'slim chance and a fat chance' be the same, while ' wise man and a
wise guy' are opposites? |
Now i know why i failed in
english.
It's not my fault but the
silly language doesn't quite know whether it's coming or going |