Garden-path sentence
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Garden-path sentence
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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. "Garden path" refers to the saying "to be led down [or up] the garden path", meaning to be deceived, tricked, or seduced. In A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926), Fowler describes such sentences as unwittingly laying a "false scent". Such a
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Sentence that starts in a way that a reader's likely interpretation will be wrong
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date created:
2003-11-16T10:46:33Z
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2024-09-03T21:42:05Z
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