Grammar Humor
Welcome to the Comma Comedians' Corner: Where Grammar Gets Giggles!
Ladies and gentlemen, verbs and nouns, gather ’round for a lexical adventure like no other! If you’ve ever chuckled at a dangling participle or snickered at a misplaced modifier, you’re in the right place. Here at our Grammar Humor page, we believe that laughter is the best medicine—unless you misuse “their,” “there,” and “they’re” in a sentence; then it’s a prescription for disaster!
Prepare to enter a world where punctuation marks aren’t just dots and squiggles—they’re the life of the party! We’ve got jokes so funny, even the Oxford comma can’t stay out of the limelight. So sit back, relax, and let us conjugate some laughter into your day. Just a warning: reading these jokes may result in uncontrollable bouts of pun-derful joy and a sudden urge to correct everyone’s grammar.
Let the grammatical giggles commence!
I’m reading a book on anti-gravity—it’s impossible to put down. Kind of like a sentence without proper punctuation—once it starts, it never stops!
The past, the present, and the future walked into a bar. It was tense.
A dangling participle walks into a bar. Enjoying a drink, the bartender chats with it.
Don't date an apostrophe—they're too possessive.
I asked the colon and the semicolon why they broke up. They said it was the pause that did it.
What's the difference between a cat and a comma? One has claws at the end of its paws, and the other is a pause at the end of a clause.
What do you call Santa's little helpers? Subordinate Clauses.
Why did the period get mad at the question mark? Because it was always asking questions.
A verb walks into a bar, sees a charming noun, and suggests they conjugate.
The exclamation mark was so excited, it couldn't contain itself!
Why do writers constantly feel cold? Because of all the drafts.
What do you call a dinosaur with an extensive vocabulary? A thesaurus.
A run-on sentence walks into a bar it starts flirting with a cute little sentence fragment.
Why did the hyphen break up with the underscore? It found someone more dash-ing!
The exclamation point was so emotional, it couldn't stop making a point!
Why did the semicolon get arrested? It was charged with running two independent clauses together!
The question mark went to therapy because it was always questioning itself.
The colon and semicolon broke up; they just couldn't see eye to eye.
The contraction couldn't commit—it had too many apostrophes hanging around.
The homonym was misunderstood at work; it always led to the wrong meetings.
A preposition is not a good word to end a sentence with—or so I've been told.
The comma told the period, "We need to slow down." The period replied, "I'm afraid I must stop you right there."