I have a bonus question for English Honors.?

Question

ok my teacher said that we could look up the answer to the phrase he gave us. The trick is that u have to make 2 sentances out of this phrase, you can't move anything around, you can't take anything out. The only thing you can do is change the punctuation. the phrase is: John where Bill had had had had had had had had had had been correct.
(There are 10 had's there) (oh and no we can't say that this is a kid w/ a talking problem.)

i really don't think that it has to make alot of sense. Because there is no possible way for you not to use all of those had's and not move anything around to make a sentance that makes sense. He said that he'll tell us tomarrow what the answer is, and i'll post the answer on here.

Answer 1

So sorry, tried, but I don't have a clue.

John where Bill had had.
Had Had been correct.


Had John had, where Bill had had, had Bill had had, where John had had.

Patti

Answer 2

This makes NO sense at all! I've been trying to figure something out. With all those "Had's" You can't really develop a sentence or phrase that makes sense. Did your teacher say the 2 sentences also have to make sense?

Answer 3

John, where Bill had "had had 'had had?'" Had "had had 'had had'" been correct?
Or
John, where Bill had "had had 'had had?'"
"Had had 'had had' had been correct.
Best I can come up with. John is being told that the use of "'had had' had had" by Bill was correct.
For example, Bill may have written the following sentence:
The sentence had had "had had" as its verb.
The questioner is either asking John if that was correct, or telling him that it was correct.

Answer 4

wait, we can't move the words around? So they have to stay in that exact order? My only suggestion is to maybe put some apostrophes in and make the had a ha'd like they laughed....but even then I cannot make sense of it.

Answer 5

There had had......(9 times had) been many times for John.....correct and did not know it.

OR

Unfortunately, the situation with John......correct occured to Martha only after she met those guys.

Answer 6

"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" is a grammatically correct sentence used as an example of how homonyms and homophones can be used to create complicated constructs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo

So, maybe it something along that idea.
John where Bill.
had had had had had had had had had had been correct.

Answer 7

Oh wow, that's brain teaser. Tell me when you get the anwser.

Answer 8

wow good one...idk...
can u add spaces?? you didn't say we couldn't add anything...? wow...plz post the answer when u get it

Answer 9

your teacher's wack. good luck sweety.

Answer 10

impossible