Grammar Trivia

Nick22 · **Reply #40 on:** March 04, 2009, 07:53:27 PM

No, but you're close.. keep trying....

aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) · **Reply #41 on:** March 04, 2009, 10:07:45 PM

I'm fairly certain the sentence needs to be readable backwards and forwards...so ere must be in the center...

Able I was ere saw I Elba ?

Nick22 · **Reply #42 on:** March 04, 2009, 10:09:10 PM

Very good, you got it. Napolean is supposed to have said it upon seeing the island for the first time.. Your turn..

aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) · **Reply #43 on:** March 04, 2009, 10:16:39 PM

Napoleon must have had a quick brain to figure that syntax out so quickly. I would have been more like, "Crap! Do I even get room service?"
I actually had to cut out little paper squares with the words on them and rearrange them to make something coherent. Good quote, fellow Nick!

Righto, next sentence.

we feel it, as fine... and I know the world of It's end

EDIT: Wait, add another "the". I forgot one.

Nick22 · **Reply #44 on:** March 04, 2009, 10:18:37 PM

It's the send of the world as we know it, and I feel fine..." Its from an R>E>M. song..

aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) · **Reply #45 on:** March 04, 2009, 10:20:49 PM

One of my favorite REM songs.

That was certainly fast. You're up!

Nick22 · **Reply #46 on:** March 04, 2009, 10:24:22 PM

R.Em's one of my favorite groups..

ok..
reasons love for I you sentimental
Pretty easy, but the artist who sings it is a bit more difficult..

aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) · **Reply #47 on:** March 04, 2009, 10:28:25 PM

I've got a guess, but I think I'll wait so other players have some chances at guessing.

Nick22 · **Reply #48 on:** March 04, 2009, 10:28:56 PM

That's fine..

Malte279 · **Reply #49 on:** March 05, 2009, 05:48:58 AM

Did Napoleon speak English at all?
Perhaps the linking of him to the sentence is a myth based on the notion that he is probably the main reason why people anywhere would hear of Elba. I've been there on holidays three or four times, but the last time I was just about seven years old I think.

Nick22 · **Reply #50 on:** March 07, 2009, 04:59:15 PM

I think he did... But I'm not completely sure.