Anyone learning English as a second language has my deepest sympathy...
1. The bandage was wound around the wound.
2. The farm was used to produce produce.
3. The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4. He could lead if he would get the lead out.
5. The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
6. Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was the time to present the present.
7. A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
8. When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
9. I did not object to the object.
10. The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
11 There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
12. They were too close to the door to close it.
13. The buck does funny things when the does are present.
14. A seamstress and a sewer fell down a sewer line.
15. To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
16. The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
17. After a number of injections my jaw got number.
18. After seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
19. I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
20. How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
We have noses that run... and feet that smell. When the stars are out, they are visible.. .when the lights are out, they are invisible.
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are the opposites?
You have to marvel at the lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down.
You fill in a form by filling it out, and in which an alarm goes off by going on.