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Study them carefully and correct the mistakes. Explain how humourous effect is achieved in each case. Pay attention to the words in italics




Quite often pun or a play on words happens unexpectedly and unintentionally resulting from mistakes that students or non-native speakers of English make. These are caused either by verbal misuse or misspelling or both. The excerpts illustrate such cases.

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1 Higher prices don’t dissolve the problem of alcoholism.

2 The bedroom was very small but the living room had a medium side.

3 At your connivance, I can be reached at the above number.

4 You always new when he come in the room because of the smell of his strange colon.

5 Next, break the eggs into two bowels.

6 Teachers harassing students will continue because the authorities don't care about the students body.

7 I felt as if I had been trown into a room of hungry loins.

8 We were so poor that we had to share a bathroom and a chicken with two other families.

9 In the end he was a rear image of his grandfather.

10 He slipped into a comma and died.

11 We read three sad stories, but the second one was the sadist.

12 "The pleasures of youth are nothing to the pleasures of adultery. "

13 Ernest Hemingway was a really, really, good righter. He was so good that he won the pull it surprise for his book The Old Man and The Sea."(in a ninth-grader's paper.)

14 Dear Dr. Osborne, I pushed Jennifer and my paper under your door." (note left on a professor's door,)

15 I was so hungry I ate a whole mill.

 




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