Tuesdays at the Writing Center

Sandhya told a joke, and then the kids laughed. Sometimes Abby and David tell jokes, too.

SEVEN BAR JOKES INVOLVING GRAMMAR AND PUNCTUATION.

By ERIC K. AULD - - - -

1. A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves. 

2. A dangling modifier walks into a bar. After finishing a drink, the bartender asks it to leave.

3. A question mark walks into a bar?

4. Two quotation marks “walk into” a bar.

5. A gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, drinking to drink.

6. The bar was walked into by the passive voice.

7. Three intransitive verbs walk into a bar. They sit. They drink. They leave. 

via McSweeneys

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