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1. I am doing some teaching, which involves teaching some elements of grammar. I do have coursebooks and don't need that.
What I would like are sentences which are funny because they are ungrammatical, and cease to be funny when the modifiers are put in their proper places or whatever.
These sentences need to be comprehensible and funny to teenagers who may not have excellent vocabularies. Books like The Transitive Vampire don't work because the vocabulary is too hard and the humor is too adult.
Types of errors that I'm looking for (only one per sentence) include faulty modification, misplaced commas, illogical comparisons, tense errors, subject-verb errors, redundancy, singular and plural, and pronoun confusion. I am not looking for advanced or controversial stuff like split infinitives. For instance:
"Running leashless through the park, Jason finally caught his dog."
"This book is dedicated to my parents, Ayn Rand and God."
"The snow in Colorado is fluffier than California."
"Emily put the bowl of water on the floor for her dog Julie, and she slurped it up."
2. I dreamed last night that I was eating a very moist (but not soggy) yet fluffy sweet cornmeal cake. The texture was halfway between pudding and cake. I can make a cornmeal cake, but it has a normal cake texture. Does anyone know how to make my dream cake? If so, please point me toward a recipe.
What I would like are sentences which are funny because they are ungrammatical, and cease to be funny when the modifiers are put in their proper places or whatever.
These sentences need to be comprehensible and funny to teenagers who may not have excellent vocabularies. Books like The Transitive Vampire don't work because the vocabulary is too hard and the humor is too adult.
Types of errors that I'm looking for (only one per sentence) include faulty modification, misplaced commas, illogical comparisons, tense errors, subject-verb errors, redundancy, singular and plural, and pronoun confusion. I am not looking for advanced or controversial stuff like split infinitives. For instance:
"Running leashless through the park, Jason finally caught his dog."
"This book is dedicated to my parents, Ayn Rand and God."
"The snow in Colorado is fluffier than California."
"Emily put the bowl of water on the floor for her dog Julie, and she slurped it up."
2. I dreamed last night that I was eating a very moist (but not soggy) yet fluffy sweet cornmeal cake. The texture was halfway between pudding and cake. I can make a cornmeal cake, but it has a normal cake texture. Does anyone know how to make my dream cake? If so, please point me toward a recipe.