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On Monday morning I strutted into Bruce's classroom and hubristically engraved my “ultimate” supersentence on the enemy's board, delivering a learned lecture proving that we had reached the end of the road supersentencewise.
The two objections I see with this would-be super-short supersentence are, first, the highly elliptical and not terribly idiomatic omission of any overt identification of the clausal status of the word painful , and second, the analysis of the thoroughly idiomatic three-word phrase, you're disgusted by as an adjective clause containing a participial phrase and a rather elliptical prepositional phrase.
In response to Richard Lederer's call for submissions in a “most graceful and coherent eleven-word supersentence” contest [“The Glamour of Grammar,” XVI,4], I offer the following:
After our scholars have completed their study of descriptive English grammar, they are frequently assigned the writing of a “supersentence”--a single sentence that includes one example of each of the four phrases and three subordinate clauses that are indentified in English grammar.