# Fish and and and and and chips

**URL:** https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/fish-and-and-and-and-and-chips/1425
**Category:** Other
**Tags:** grammar
**Created:** [July 13, 2022, 1:38pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/fish-and-and-and-and-and-chips/1425 "2022-07-13T13:38:42Z")
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### Author: ![Max](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/user_avatar/discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/max/32/97_2.png) [@Max](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Max)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2022, 1:38pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/fish-and-and-and-and-and-chips/1425/1 "2022-07-13T13:38:43Z")

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I though this might be a fun grammar exercise for anyone who wants to try it.

Here’s the joke behind the puzzle:

The local town has a new fish and chips shop and a painter is doing the sign for it. A local, walking past, notices that the painter is writing “fishandchips” and has forgotten the spaces between the words. So the local remarks: “You forgot the spaces between fish and and and and and chips”.

The grammar puzzle is to analyze the quoted sentence, including annotations for whether each word is a noun, verb, modifier, conjunction, etc.