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Noun Concept
Categories: All articles needing additional references, Patterns, Jokes, Psycholinguistics, Ambiguity
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garden-path sentence  garden path effect  garden path sentence  garden path sentences  The horse raced past the barn fell
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A garden-path sentence is a grammatically correct sentence that starts in such a way that a reader's most likely interpretation will be incorrect; the reader is lured into a parse that turns out to be a dead end or yields a clearly unintended meaning. Wikipedia
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A garden-path sentence is a grammatically correct sentence that starts in such a way that a reader's most likely interpretation will be incorrect; the reader is lured into a parse that turns out to be a dead end or yields a clearly unintended meaning. Wikipedia
A sentence which leads the reader to an incorrect parse Wikipedia Disambiguation
grammatically correct sentence that starts in such a way that a reader's most likely interpretation will be incorrect Wikidata
IS A
sentence
HAS INSTANCE
Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana
HAS QUALITY
misdirection
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garden-path sentence
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garden-path sentence
Wikipedia Redirections
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garden path effect, garden path sentence, garden path sentences, The horse raced past the barn fell, The old man the boat, The old man the boats
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garden path sentence

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