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English is weird
jwhouk:
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The most common word in the English language is.
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"is" - the most common word in the English language.
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Nope.
"The" is the most common word in the English language.
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cesium133:
It depends on what the meaning of "is" is.
JoeCovenant:
I don't, know if this has been raised in the topic previously, but a superb example of one sentence meaning as many things as there are words 'in' the sentence is:
"I didn't say I killed him."
Inflection can make that be taken seven different ways...
ETA: (if you count a flat intonation, I'd swither on that one having the same basic meaning as stressing the *didn't*)
Morituri:
"The most common word in the English language exists."
Actually, using that (somewhat obsolete but still used) sense of "is", it was a correct and complete sentence to start with.
It's very much a "garden path" sentence though, in that its structure misleads you into expecting a second argument for "is".
Pilchard123:
"The most common word is in the English language."
Perhaps not true, but grammatically correct.
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