Why Is This Funny and Incorrect? Instagram Post Break Down

Posted on Feb 27 2016 - 8:35am by PopESL

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We found this on Instagram and thought it was funny. Why? Because it makes fun of something people do all the time and don’t really mean. Have you ever told someone you wanted to hang out but you knew it wouldn’t happen? Most people do this. So this is funny because it puts someone on the spot. Do you agree?

It also contain both punctuation and grammar mistakes:

Always capitalize the first word in a complete quotation, even in mid sentence. It doesn’t capitalize the first words in either quote.

Periods and commas ALWAYS go inside quotations. It does not include any punctuation.

Now let’s look at the vocabulary. Match these words to the synonyms in this post.

spend time

freak out

immediately

see

run into
panic
right now
hang out

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