Re: =SDC= Q21: Parts of speech

From: "Django Cat" <notareal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 08:28:26 GMT

Mike Barnes wrote

In alt.usage.english, Jerry Friedman wrote:

Please construct a sentence in which a written word can be read as
either of two words that are etymologically unrelated and different
parts of speech.

Fruit flies like an apple.

Time flies like the wind?

DC
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