WHY FOREIGNERS FIND ENGLISH SO HARD TO LEARN
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 thehead 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) After a number of injections my jaw got number.
19) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
20) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
21) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend? Let's face it -English is a crazy language. There is no egg in an eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in
pineapple. Sweetmeats are candies, while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet,
are meat. And 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. You park in the driveway but you drive on the parkway. You ship
by truck and send cargo by ship. How can a slim chance and a fat chance be
the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel
at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up ! as it
burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which an
alarm goes off by going on. When the stars are out, they are visible, but
when the lights are out, they are invisible. And finally, how about when you
want to shut down your computer you have to hit "START"?! Have a good day!