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What do these five movie titles have in common?
1. My Big Fat Greek Wedding
2. Who Framed Roger Rabbit
3. Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
4. Eight Legged Freaks
5. The Ladies Man
1. My Big Fat Greek Wedding
2. Who Framed Roger Rabbit
3. Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
4. Eight Legged Freaks
5. The Ladies Man
Hint
Don't think too much about the movies just the titles (or this sentence!)Answer
Bad grammar or punctuation - yes, very pedantic!1. Commas: My Big, Fat, Greek ...
2. Question mark: Who Framed ... ?
3. Past participle: Honey, I've ...
4. Hyphen: Eight-Legged ...
5. Apostrophe: - Ladies'
In 2013, Time Magazine identified ten of these (hence the teaser title!) The other five were:
* Star Trek Into Darkness (colon missing)
* Law Abiding Citizen (hyphen missing)
* Two Weeks Notice (apostrophe missing - weeks')
* Burn Hollywood Burn (commas in this subtitle)
* The 40 Year-Old Virgin (40-year-old)
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