Editing 2793: Garden Path Sentence
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Another way of diagramming this (where noun phrases are in parenthesis and verbal clauses in brackets) would be: | Another way of diagramming this (where noun phrases are in parenthesis and verbal clauses in brackets) would be: | ||
− | [ after | + | [after (bird strikes) ], |
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− | + | [who ordered (((olive garden path) sentence) [in case of (green walkways)]) be vacated]) | |
− | [ ( the judge | + | is overturned, but [(she) rights (herself) and [lands safely]]]. |
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Certain combinations of words in the sentence are particularly easy to parse incorrectly. For example: | Certain combinations of words in the sentence are particularly easy to parse incorrectly. For example: |