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Joke # 6
Answer Key for Level 5
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      Two men were traveling {on a motorcycle} {on a windy, 

winter day}. / [When it became too breezy {for one}], he stopped 

and put his overcoat {on} backwards to keep the wind {from 

ballooning it  away} {from him}. / A few miles (NuA Note #1) 

further {on}, the motorcycle hit a tree, killing the driver and 

stunning the fellow {with the reversed coat}. Later, [when the

coroner visited the scene,] he asked a rookie policeman

standing nearby: ["What happened?"] /   "Well (Interjection)," 

[the officer replied,] "one {of them} was dead [when I got here,] /   

and {by the time} [I got the head {of the other one} 

straightened (Noun Absolute - DO of "got" ) around,

he was dead, too." /
 

Baude's Handbook of Humor for All Occasions.
Compiled by Jacob M. Braude. 
Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1958. p. 167.

Note

1. One can consider "miles" as functioning as an adverb modifying "further," or "further" as an adverb modifying "miles." Either option results in the phrase "A few miles further on" which is adverbial to "hit."
 
 

Progress
Total Words = 105 Words %
L1: In Prep Phrases  31  30
L1: + Adj & Adverbs 22 50
+ L2: S / V / C 35 84
+ L3: Clauses 4 88
+ L4: Verbals 10 97
+ Eight Other 3 100

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