Sometimes Our Mother Tongue is Confusing

 

Reasons To Be Grateful If You Grew Up Speaking English—(and Very Tolerant of the Struggles of Those Who Did Not)

 

The bandage was wound around the wound.

  The farmer’s goal was to produce fresh produce.
  The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
  We must polish the Polish furniture.
  He could lead if he would get the lead out.
  The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
  Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
  When he shot at the dove it dove into the bushes.
  I did not object to the object.
  The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
  The oarsmen had a row about how to row.
  They were too close to the door to close it.
  The buck does funny things when the does are present.
  A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer.
  Because he wanted help with the planting, a farmer taught his sow to sow.
  The sailor couldn’t wind the sail because the wind was too strong.
  My jaw got number after a number of Novocain injections.
  I shed a tear when I saw the tear in the painting.
  I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
  I could only intimate the truth to my most intimate friends.
  When I saw him last evening he was evening out a pile of dirt.

 

 

 

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