Challenge: Can you punctuate this sentence?

**StuartD** · 06-07-2007, 08:51 AM

John, where Mary had had "had", had had "had had". "Had had" had had a better effect on the teacher.

It has to do with grammar. "Had had" is the past participle (I believe) and John had [written] the wrong answer on his HW assignment (or whatever), which was "had". Mary had [written] the correct answer, which was "had had". Thus, While John had had "had" [on his paper], Mary had had "had had" on her paper. The fact that Mary had "had had" on her paper made the teacher happy.

Answer found here:
http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/6174/had-had.htm

**gornyhuy** · 06-07-2007, 10:29 AM

Google makes all puzzles and challenges suck ass.

**donkevlar** · 06-07-2007, 11:47 AM

StuartD, way to ruin the puzzle

**Boobmeister** · 06-07-2007, 11:53 AM

Originally posted by gornyhuy

Google makes all puzzles and challenges suck ass.

Don't blame Google, blame StuartD

**MikeB** · 06-07-2007, 12:01 PM

Would a semi-colon work to maintain it as one sentence?

John, where Mary had had "had", had had "had had"; "had had" had had a better effect on the teacher.

**carol.prime** · 06-07-2007, 01:07 PM

ill have an headache on this puzzle..Had had had ...

**Dollarmansteve** · 06-07-2007, 01:45 PM

Originally posted by MikeB

Would a semi-colon work to maintain it as one sentence?

John, where Mary had had "had", had had "had had"; "had had" had had a better effect on the teacher.

I think it could - I use a little rule of thumb that if you replace a ";" with "and" and the sentence makes sense.. then you can use a semi-colon.

**B O B** · 06-07-2007, 02:49 PM

Mary had a little lamb,
her brother was already busy with the pig

Challenge: Can you punctuate this sentence?

Challenge: Can you punctuate this sentence?

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