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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:
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.
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.
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.