[Closed] Grammar Q. How interesting the story he told us is!

I think I'd put a comma in between the us and is.

Not directly what you asked, but when appropriate (e.g. creative writing, song lyrics), artistic license trumps grammar.

Like many things other in life (e.g. manners, test standard driving, safe sex), once you know the rules you can apply them as required. After all, rules are for the guidance of wise man, and the abeyance of fools.

Although I can be quite the grammar pedant, I wholeheartedly approve of Tucker's post...

It's clumsy but I wouldn't say it's wrong. I'd revise it (if I had to) to, "How interesting the story he told us (past tense) was (matching the past tense)". Why do you ask?

Not sure if it's technically wrong but it's awfully clumsy. The last word in the sentence is the main verb.

"How interesting is the story he told us?" You're also using a question word in a sentence that's not a question. I think it's an archaic usage isn't it?

You could use this?

"The story he told us was very interesting."

Thanks for your replies.
Grammar isn't my strong point, I blame my teacher.

I am having this conversation with a Professor of English here in China (he's Chinese).
I said that the sentence is awkward and is 'old' English, he says it's fine for teaching.
I just think it's wrong, as he's teaching English, which, today, we don't use.

It's grammatically correct.

A comma would be wrong.

sounds like Yoda though

The professor is, right. Stop, the comma madness!

Grammatically correct and a construction known as fronting.

[i]Like many things other in life (e.g. manners, test standard driving, safe sex), once you know the rules you can apply them as required. After all, rules are for the guidance of wise man, and the abeyance of fools.[/i]

I've read a lot, spent too much time on the internet, but I think I have just found my 'favourite quote' for the empty box on my Facebook profile.

Would you like to go down in history as 'some guy off the interweb, TuckerUK, or something else?

If you simplify it, you could say "how interesting that is", which sounds correct - and replacing 'that' with 'the story he told us' shouldn't make it wrong. But it does sound a bit archaic, like Churchill's alleged "That is the kind of pedantic use of English up with which I will not put."

Like many things other in life (e.g. manners, test standard driving, safe sex), once you know the rules you can apply them as required. After all, rules are for the guidance of wise man, and the abeyance of fools.

I've read a lot, spent too much time on the internet, but I think I have just found my 'favourite quote' for the empty box on my Facebook profile.

Unless you're being ironic, you might want to check the meaning of "abeyance" before you do that.

Whether not it's grammatically correct is neither here nor there, that's not the problem. Shakespeare is grammatically correct, but you wouldn't want to use it as a study aid for foreign language students.

I suppose it could be used as an example of sarcasm, at a push; referring to a completely uninteresting story.

To me that is perfectly correct. It works in the same way as an embedded question works; [i]Could you tell me where the train station is?[/i] or [i]I don't know where it is.[/i]

And TuckerUK's quote would be perfect, if there was an article before wise man or he changed the man to men. 😉

Grammatically correct and a construction known as fronting.

<singers at the double entendre possibilities of 'fronting'>