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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.This is really why English is so much fun. The author of The Chaos was a Dutchman, the writer and traveller Dr Gerard Nolst Trenité. Scroll all the way to the bottom for the poem. For best effect read it aloud. Enjoy. [web.archive.org]
DaveSchumacher
Level 7
Jan 4, 2019
1
A comma would help with the grammar; but yes, words make sense.
Lillyfield41
Level 7
Jan 1, 2019
2
(I probably would have dropped one after the second had, but that's just me)
FIVE IN A ROW
When writing the phrase 'fish and chips' you should leave a space between 'fish' and 'and', and 'and' and chips.
ELEVEN IN A ROW
A teacher asked two of her pupils, John and James, to show the use of the past tense by describing a man who had recovered from a cold.
John suggested, 'He had a cold.'
The teacher wasn't entirely happy, as John's offering did not indicate that the cold was fully in the past and recovered from.
James suggested, 'He had had a cold.'
The teacher was more impressed with James's offering. In other words:-
James, while John had had 'had', had had 'had had'; 'had had' had had a better response from the teacher.
ToakReon
Level 8
Jan 1, 2019
2
I got a headache reading that sentence. 
I can only imagine the frustration involved when learning English as a second language! A complete brain workout!?
patchoullijulie
Level 8
Jan 1, 2019
2
It wasn't fun...
@Kafir See...that's what I'm sayin ?
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