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"Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" is a grammatically correct sentence (if we allow that "buffalo", as well as being both the singular and plural for a species of animal, is also a verb meaning "to intimidate", and "Buffalo" is a city in New York State, USA). Is there any word that can be used to create a mono-verbal sentence of arbitrarily long length?
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I can only come up with: Polish Polish polish.Steve3007 wrote: ↑November 10th, 2021, 6:42 am What's the longest grammatically correct sentence you can think of containing only one word?
"Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" is a grammatically correct sentence (if we allow that "buffalo", as well as being both the singular and plural for a species of animal, is also a verb meaning "to intimidate", and "Buffalo" is a city in New York State, USA). Is there any word that can be used to create a mono-verbal sentence of arbitrarily long length?
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Good one! Thanks. I suppose if there were such a thing as a type of polish whose purpose is to polish other polish, (which your sentence implies, while also implying that the country of origin of the polish being polished is Poland), then we might have a candidate there for a grammatically correct mono-verbal sentence of arbitrarily long length. This is reminding me a bit of Dr Seuss's Hawtch-Hawtcher Bee Watcher.LuckyR wrote:I can only come up with: Polish Polish polish.
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