This is a bile-spattered compendium, a list of anecdotes about encounters with sea monsters, a pile of photographs of grisly injuries and gruesome disasters. They're all bad, and there's little reason for competition. And yet you can't look away. "How can this be grammatically correct?" we all wonder. Share your "had has have"-esque beasts here, so that we might marvel.
Here's one I just typed to an author for whom I am pre-reading.
The Worst Sentences in the English Language
This is a bile-spattered compendium, a list of anecdotes about encounters with sea monsters, a pile of photographs of grisly injuries and gruesome disasters. They're all bad, and there's little reason for competition. And yet you can't look away. "How can this be grammatically correct?" we all wonder. Share your "had has have"-esque beasts here, so that we might marvel.
Here's one I just typed to an author for whom I am pre-reading.
I typed it. And then I stared at it.
It stared back.
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I can parse that sentence, but it doesn't mean I have to like it.
Every time I see 'had' next to another 'had', all my "it's wrong" instincts are tripped. And YET...
Took me a while to figure out that this sentence is actually grammatically correct. And then there are such sentences as: