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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.

Instead of 'who's', it's 'whose'.

I typed it. And then I stared at it.

It stared back.

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He knew of that 'that' that that boy was speaking of.

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I can parse that sentence, but it doesn't mean I have to like it. :derpytongue2:

I had had enough.

Every time I see 'had' next to another 'had', all my "it's wrong" instincts are tripped. And YET...

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Took me a while to figure out that this sentence is actually grammatically correct. And then there are such sentences as:

James, while John had had 'had', had had 'had had'; 'had had' had had a better effect on the teacher.

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