a baby tomato or baby tomato

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Anonymous

#422000 Fri, 21 Sep 07 01:09 PM

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?

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Feebs11

#422072 Fri, 21 Sep 07 04:41 PM

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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