An attempt at a word pun:)
Would the following qualify as a somewhat funny word play of words in English (with an intention to draw the students' attention to the spelling of "die" and "Dye"in different forms) ? :)
- I'm dying to see her dyed hair!
- Her dyed hair?
- Yes, she's dyed it pink. She's been dyeing it all morning. In a minute, we can see it.
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Your pun is good.
Here's a way you could add the forms "die" and "dye":
--I've heard she bought hair dye.
-- Really? She is going to dye her hair? I would die to see her hair dyed.
-- Me too. I've heard she's dyeing her hair right now, and I'm dying to see the result.
--Her mother dyed her hair too, but she died last year.
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Haha, thanks for the suggestion, Steven! :)
So you can actually say (in normal English) that hair is dyeing (i.e. being painted), which would sound exactly like "dying"?
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Ha! This is why people think English is a crazy language. Good grasp of a tricky subject! Perhaps to further the pun:
I’m dying to see her dyed hair!
Her hair is dying?
Yes, she dyed it pink. It’s been dying all morning. In a minute we can see it.
(I'm not even sure that I got this right)
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