Challenge: Can you punctuate this sentence?
 

A puzzle:
See if you can punctuate this sentence so that it makes sense and is grammatically correct. :thumbsup

John where mary had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher.

Yes, thats 11 "had"s.
You can DO it. :)

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

Google makes all puzzles and challenges suck ass.

StuartD, way to ruin the puzzle :(:(

Don't blame Google, blame StuartD

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.

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

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.

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