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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
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a baby tomato or baby tomato
Hi,
I was looking at a joke in the joke section in the itesl.org website and saw a pun that went like this:
Three tomatoes are walking down the street, a poppa tomato, a momma tomato ...
Can it be just 'Poppa tomato' and 'Momma tomato' in capital letters?
Can it also be for an animal? Poppa monkey and Sister monkey in capital letters?
I was looking at a joke in the joke section in the itesl.org website and saw a pun that went like this:
Three tomatoes are walking down the street, a poppa tomato, a momma tomato ...
Can it be just 'Poppa tomato' and 'Momma tomato' in capital letters?
Can it also be for an animal? Poppa monkey and Sister monkey in capital letters?
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It is not required in this kind of context - poppa, momma, and baby are just being used as identifiers, not as their titles or personal names. You can tell that because it says "a" poppa ... Without the article ["Poppa Tomato, Momma Tomato and Baby Tomato"] they are being used as the names of the characters in the joke and will then need capital letters.
- It is not required in this kind of context - poppa, momma, and baby are just being used as identifiers, not as their titles or personal names.
- You can tell that because it says "a" poppa ...
- Without the article ["Poppa Tomato, Momma Tomato and Baby Tomato"] they are being used as the names of the characters in the joke and will then need capital letters.
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It is not required in this kind of context - poppa, momma, and baby are just being used as identifiers, not as their titles or personal names. You can tell that because it says "a" poppa ... Without the article ["Poppa Tomato, Momma Tomato and Baby Tomato"] they are being used as the names of the characters in the joke and will then need capital letters.
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