eileen
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| Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 10:03 pm Post subject: Can you say these 1st time around.......... |
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....... without any mistakes?
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 the head 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 ) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
19) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
20) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
21) After a number of injections my jaw got number.
22) They designed the entrance to entrance all the visitors.
23) The golfer was putting all his effort into his putting.
24) Touch that live wire and you won't live.
25) Yes you two can go to the zoo too.
Neither wonder people get confused when trying to learn English!!!!! 
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Frank
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| Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 11:38 pm Post subject: |
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Wow that is tough. I'd hate to be learning English for the first time with all that confusion. I am learning Swedish and I bet there is just as much double meaning as English 
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