07/01/2022
Party jokes for us wild and crazy grammar geeks.
A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves.
A dangling modifier walks into a bar. After finishing a drink, the bartender asks it to leave.
A bar is walked into by the passive voice.
Three intransitive verbs walk into a bar. They sit. They drink. They leave.
Three transitive verbs walk into a bar. They take seats. They pound the counter. They throw darts.
What would have happened had a subjunctive walked into a bar?
An antecedent walks into a bar, and it orders a drink.
An ellipsis walks into a bar…
The bartender asks a woman what she wants. “An entendre,” she says. “Make it a double.”
Alliteration traipses into a tavern, where it tangles tempestuously with talkative toucan.
Assonance, with cheer, orders a beer.
A typo wakls into a bar.
A rabbi, a priest and a cliché walk into a bar.
Two possessive apostrophe’s improperly walk into a bar.
A subject and a verb have a disagreement in a bar, and one of them pull out a pistol.
A heedless homonym walks into a bar and trips over a chair. You’d think she wood of scene it.
A serial comma, also called an Oxford comma, walks into a bar, orders a drink, and leaves a tip.
