7 walking-into-a-bar jokes for grammar geeks

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57 Responses

  1. KP says:

    A sentence fragment into a bar.

  2. KP says:

    A group of homophones wok inn two a bar.

  3. Christina P says:

    I see no gerund in the phrase “drinking to drink.”

  4. KP says:

    A bad spellcheck job walks into a bra.

  5. Stephen says:

    A pronoun antecedent doesn’t walk into it.

  6. KP says:

    So, an aposiopesis walks into a——but I’d best not mention that here.

  7. Brent says:

    A drinking participle and infinitive walk into a bar to drink.

  8. Bill says:

    A split infinitive walks into a bar and asks to first see the menu.

  9. Sean Deaux says:

    A subjugated verb walked into a bar. Wild no longer but needs stitches.

  10. Bruce says:

    After being released on parole, a period went to a bar to mark the end of his sentence.

  11. KP says:

    A pleonasm walked into a pub bar.

  12. Sal says:

    We won’t even discuss the paralipsis that walked into a bar.

  13. Harry says:

    A spoonerism balks into a war, dras a link, then heaves.

  14. Prince Philip of Greece says:

    An ellipsis walks onto the end of a sentence…

  15. Prince Philip of Greece says:

    Yoda; a bar, walked into.

  16. joann spears says:

    I em dashed into the bar next to the station to have a drink—and break my train of thought.

  17. Bre says:

    Too many “fools”, keeps following this thread!

  18. Phil says:

    A synoynm ambles into a pub.

  19. Paul says:

    Joe Subjunctive said that if he were old enough to drink, he’d walk into a bar.

  20. Janet says:

    A lost apostrophe walk’s into a bar….

  21. Karyn says:

    How can I see all the comments? I can only see the first 20 and when I looked at this the other day there were some really good ones way back there.

  22. Marytharp says:

    A parenthesis ( ) walks into a bar…

  23. Harry says:

    Actually, that should be a parenthesis ( walks into a bar. Parenthesis is singular. So it should be “Parentheses walk bowlegged () into a bar …”

  24. Colin Matheson says:

    An attachment ambiguity walks into a bar with a strange woman …

  25. Paul says:

    An intensive pronoun herself walked into a bar.

  26. Paul says:

    A conjunctive adverb walked into the bar; however, he didn’t stay.

  27. Mamie says:

    Falling slowly, softly falling, the chiasmus collapsed to the bar floor.

  28. Pam says:

    A passive voice was not heard at the bar

  29. Pam says:

    An infinitive intended to quickly drink ten beers, but got sick and began to unfortuately split up all over the bar.

  30. Bill says:

    A double negative didn’t not walk into a bar.

  31. Paul says:

    Several indefinite pronouns walked into a bar; a few stayed.

  32. Paul says:

    Two well-dressed verbs swaggered into a bar, caroused with the locals, tangoed on the tables, but still couldn’t get any action.

  33. Kt says:

    A hyperbole totally ripped into this bar and destroyed everything.

  34. Eva says:

    don’t know if mentioned:

    an adverb walks proudly and gracefully into a bar.

  35. Dan Henry says:

    A dangling preposition found a bar and walked in.

  36. paul says:

    A run on sentence walks into a bar it is thirsty

  37. Andrew says:

    Knock knock
    Who’s there?
    To
    To who?
    To whom. :D

  38. JonoC says:

    Two homphones walked in to a bar.

    A third joined them, too.

  39. Gavin says:

    A passive verb walked into a bar and met a participle adjective. He was drunk.

  40. AJ says:

    I think number 7 is incorrect. Aren’t drink and leave ambitransitive? “He drinks water” is an example of drink being transitive and “she leaves town” is an example of leave being transitive. In fact, now that I think of it, sit is ambitranisitive too, as in “students sit the exam”.

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