This is a punctuation problem. How could you punctuate it so it makes sense? "John where James had had had had had had had had had had had a better score."

What are some examples of awkward sounding but grammatically correct sentences?

James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher.

I'm not sure, but as the schoolboy put it... "I had 'had', where I would have had 'had had', if 'had had' had had the teacher's approval."

You'll probably want to put some punctuation in these: Wouldn't the sentence "I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and and and and and Chips in my 'Fish and Chips' sign" have been clearer if quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between Fish and and, and and and and, and and...

Possible Duplicate: What does “had had” mean? How does this differ from “had”? Is this correct usage? I had had enough food? Thanks.

Related to this post... I've'n't a clue what the largest word with multiple contractions is, but I'd've thought I'd've seen it here by now. I won't know until you've'd a chance to answer! My initial gambit: The fish'n'chips'll've been all gone by the time we get to the restaurant!

I am not referring to could as a past tense of can What is the difference between the following sentences? You should do it. You could do it.

A video and some news are spreading like wildfire on the internet about some artificial meat made from human feces. The summary from slashdot, for example, says Hold on to your hamburgers — Japanese scientist Mitsyuki Ikeda at the Environmental Assessment Center in Okayama has invented an art...

Ah, less vs. fewer. Another arrow in the prescriptivist’s quiver of pointless pedantry. There's even a Wikipedia article about the dispute. There is also a Language Log entry about the matter too. According to Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage, a usage guide that looks carefully at ...

I'm reading a novel based in ye olde pirate-times, and I have come across the author's usage of "cannon" (without the "s") to refer to multiple cannons. The ship boasted 32 cannon onboard. Is this just an archaic usage that the author is employing for purposes of story-telling? Also, how/why di...

I guess it's about simple past vs. past perfect usage but some examples are welcomed, I'm really not sure if I understand it correctly.

EDIT: Added past continuous, trimmed image so it would be slightly larger, and gave it a transparent background. EDIT 2: Added middle line, made some adjustments per @Kosmonaut.

In longish lists of comments the list gets abridged and a "more comments" link shows up at the end, kind of like an ellipsis. Normally, one would expect that such a list would be trimmed at the end, but on English.SE (and possibly on other SE sites) the elisions can occur anywhere in the list. F...