For all those writers out there…
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- An Oxford comma walks into a bar, where it spends the evening watching the television, getting drunk, and smoking cigars.
- A dangling participle walks into a bar. Enjoying a cocktail and chatting with the bartender, the evening passes pleasantly.
- A bar was walked into by the passive voice.
- An oxymoron walked into a bar, and the silence was deafening.
- Two quotation marks walk into a “bar.”
- A malapropism walks into a bar, looking for all intensive purposes like a wolf in cheap clothing, muttering epitaphs and casting dispersions on his magnificent other, who takes him for granite.
- Hyperbole totally rips into this insane bar and absolutely destroys everything.
- A question mark walks into a bar?
- A non sequitur walks into a bar. In a strong wind, even turkeys can fly.
- Papyrus and Comic Sans walk into a bar. The bartender says, “Get out — we don’t serve your type.”
- A mixed metaphor walks into a bar, seeing the handwriting on the wall but hoping to nip it in the bud.
- A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves.
- Three intransitive verbs walk into a bar. They sit. They converse. They depart.
- A synonym strolls into a tavern.
- At the end of the day, a cliché walks into a bar — fresh as a daisy, cute as a button, and sharp as a tack.
- A run-on sentence walks into a bar it starts flirting. With a cute little sentence fragment.
- Falling slowly, softly falling, the chiasmus collapses to the bar floor.
- A figure of speech literally walks into a bar and ends up getting figuratively hammered.
- An allusion walks into a bar, despite the fact that alcohol is its Achilles heel.
- The subjunctive would have walked into a bar, had it only known.
- A misplaced modifier walks into a bar owned by a man with a glass eye named Ralph.
- The past, present, and future walked into a bar. It was tense.
- A dyslexic walks into a bra.
- A verb walks into a bar, sees a beautiful noun, and suggests they conjugate. The noun declines.
- A simile walks into a bar, as parched as a desert.
- A gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, drinking to forget.
- A hyphenated word and a non-hyphenated word walk into a bar and the bartender nearly chokes on the irony.
Actually, good examples… LOL
Love these!!
I’m dyslexic.
I’m lysdexic.
Over my illiterate head.
MC- LOL
Bill- Ouch!!!
WSF- All word play!
Oh my God, I just had a flashback to diagramming sentences!
Great examples – I’m keeping this one!
I’m sitting through a stupid suicide awareness presentation beating us over the heads at the moment, and ignoring it in favor of this.
Had to choke down laughter at these. Needed it; the presentation is so stultifyingly boring and insulting that it inspires that which it ostensibly seeks to prevent.
Bob- LOL, yep!
SL- Feel free!
Kermit- Oh damn…
Guilty as charged.
Made me smile.
Thanks.
12 years of English grammar condensed into one sitting.
Some of those are pretty subtle…
GB- LOL
Aesop- Good point!
drjim- Oh yes…
had to look up several words
did not understand the last one about ‘hyphenated’
have not had grammar class since 1965!