Speed Bump by Dave Coverly for December 22, 2018

It’s all very tense.

And now, back to that Christmas classic, “Until Subordinate Claus Is Ready, Main Claus Is Comin’ To Town”.

Conditionally, if there is a next year.

At last a pluperfect cartoon.

So last year was past perfect? Sounds about right.

If you were to come back, you’d be in a subjunctive mood.

He sure is tense for a ghost.

Sounds like the ghost of Scrooge’s father’s mom… his grammar.

Jokes for English Majors, you don’t see those very often

Grammatical ghost!

past, present or future tense?

I thought Grammar got run over by a reindeer.

Very scary story, boy and girls.

I prefer the Ghost of Christmas Presents…

“I will have been” is future perfect, isn’t it? I can’t think of how “future imperfect” would be phrased. A grammar nazi cries out for help!

There you go, Grammar Police. Enjoy.

Another spectre of what is to become of the English language.

The older I get the better I was.

What will be will be what is, what is will be what was, and what was will have been what will be.