Wednesday, February 3, 2010

From the "Mouths of Babes" file...

My ten-year-old was working on a Language Arts writing assignment today. She was supposed to take two shorter sentences and, using a conjunction or omitting words, edit them down to one, more succinct sentence. Here are the two sentences:

Many men have learned to cope with handicaps. Many women have learned to cope with handicaps.

The correct answer is: Many men and women have learned to cope with handicaps.

My daughter (who evidently knows her parents all too well) wrote:

"Many men have learned to cope with handicaps, and women."

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