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Garden Path Sentence !
Hello!
I would like to know Garden Path Sentence !
What does this term mean?
1. The horse raced past the barn fell.
2. The man who hunts ducks out on weekends.
3. The cotton clothing is usually made of grow in Mississippi.
4. The prime number few.
5. Fat people eat accumulates.
6. The tycoon sold the offshore oil tracts for a lot of money wanted to killJR.
Is there anyone who explains me this English grammar?
Thank you.
I would like to know Garden Path Sentence !
What does this term mean?
1. The horse raced past the barn fell.
2. The man who hunts ducks out on weekends.
3. The cotton clothing is usually made of grow in Mississippi.
4. The prime number few.
5. Fat people eat accumulates.
6. The tycoon sold the offshore oil tracts for a lot of money wanted to killJR.
Is there anyone who explains me this English grammar?
Thank you.
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[nq:1]Hello! I would like to know Garden Path Sentence ! What does this term mean?
- [nq:1]Hello!
- I would like to know Garden Path Sentence !
- What does this term mean?
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- The horse raced past ...
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[nq:1]Hello! I would like to know Garden Path Sentence ! What does this term mean? 1. The horse raced past ... oil tracts for a lot of money wanted to kill JR. Is there anyone who explains me this English grammar?[/nq]
I never heard this term before; I suspect that it is used in English Foreign Language teaching. I see from searching that it's related to "leading somebody up the garden path".
I never heard this term before; I suspect that it is used in English Foreign Language teaching. I see from searching that it's related to "leading somebody up the garden path".
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[nq:2]Hello! I would like to know Garden Path Sentence ! ... JR. Is there anyone who explains me this English grammar?[/nq]
[nq:1]I never heard this term before; I suspect that it is used in English Foreign Language teaching. I see from ... one. All these "sentences" are meaningless. They start out well but they all turn unto nonsense before the full stop.[/nq]
Do they? Reading the first o
[nq:1]I never heard this term before; I suspect that it is used in English Foreign Language teaching. I see from ... one. All these "sentences" are meaningless. They start out well but they all turn unto nonsense before the full stop.[/nq]
Do they? Reading the first o
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[nq:2]I never heard this term before; I suspect that it ... but they all turn unto nonsense before the full stop.[/nq]
[nq:1]Do they? Reading the first one, I wondered if a "barn fell" might be some geographical feature that I've never ... possible to me that the man who hunts might duck out of something at weekends, but I'm not sure what.[/nq]
You're right, of course, and I started trying
[nq:1]Do they? Reading the first one, I wondered if a "barn fell" might be some geographical feature that I've never ... possible to me that the man who hunts might duck out of something at weekends, but I'm not sure what.[/nq]
You're right, of course, and I started trying
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[nq:2]Hello! I would like to know Garden Path Sentence ! ... JR. Is there anyone who explains me this English grammar?[/nq]
[nq:1]I never heard this term before; I suspect that it is used in English Foreign Language teaching. I see from ... one. All these "sentences" are meaningless. They start out well but they all turn unto nonsense before the full stop.[/nq]
Read them again. With a bit
[nq:1]I never heard this term before; I suspect that it is used in English Foreign Language teaching. I see from ... one. All these "sentences" are meaningless. They start out well but they all turn unto nonsense before the full stop.[/nq]
Read them again. With a bit
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[nq:1]I would like to know Garden Path Sentence ! What does this term mean?[/nq]
I haven't heard it before. I suppose it could refer to a sentence that leads you astray down the garden path.
[nq:1]1. The horse raced past the barn fell.The horsse that fell was the one that raced past the barn. 2. ... me. Is there anyone who explains me this English grammar?Would someone please explain to me
I haven't heard it before. I suppose it could refer to a sentence that leads you astray down the garden path.
[nq:1]1. The horse raced past the barn fell.The horsse that fell was the one that raced past the barn. 2. ... me. Is there anyone who explains me this English grammar?Would someone please explain to me
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[nq:1]You're right, of course, and I started trying to make sense of them in this sort of manner. But then I looked up "garden path sentence" and all became as clear as mud.[/nq]
For the curious, here's a snip from a Web page dealing with "garden path sentences":
For the curious, here's a snip from a Web page dealing with "garden path sentences":
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Garden path sentences are used in psycholinguistics to illustrate that human beings process language one00
[nq:2]1. The horse raced past the barn fell.[/nq]
[nq:1]The horsse that fell was the one that raced past the barn.[/nq]
I meant to write "that was raced past the barn".
[nq:1]The horsse that fell was the one that raced past the barn.[/nq]
I meant to write "that was raced past the barn".
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Bob Cunningham filted:
The only one I've seen so far that makes sense in this thread is the one that makes "raced" passive...think of "the horse that was raced past the barn"; he fell..
This one's spoilt, unless someone knows a dialect in which "cotton" is plural..
[nq:2]4. The prime number few.[/nq]
[nq:1]Beats me. Maybe "prime" is a collective noun like "meek" in
The only one I've seen so far that makes sense in this thread is the one that makes "raced" passive...think of "the horse that was raced past the barn"; he fell..
This one's spoilt, unless someone knows a dialect in which "cotton" is plural..
[nq:2]4. The prime number few.[/nq]
[nq:1]Beats me. Maybe "prime" is a collective noun like "meek" in
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[nq:2]I never heard this term before; I suspect that it ... but they all turn unto nonsense before the full stop.[/nq]
[nq:1]Read them again. With a bit of thought (and the odd bit of repunctuation), all are both grammatical and meaningful (except for No. 5 anyone?[/nq]
I see. Intriguing.
[nq:1]1. The horse Raced Past The Barn fell. ("raced" sounds like a verb whose subject is "the hor
[nq:1]Read them again. With a bit of thought (and the odd bit of repunctuation), all are both grammatical and meaningful (except for No. 5 anyone?[/nq]
I see. Intriguing.
[nq:1]1. The horse Raced Past The Barn fell. ("raced" sounds like a verb whose subject is "the hor
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[nq:1]Hello! I would like to know Garden Path Sentence ! What does this term mean? 1. The horse raced past the barn fell. 2. The man who hunts ducks out on weekends.[/nq]
I'll deal with this one lower down.
[nq:1]3. The cotton clothing is usually made of grow in Mississippi. 4. The prime number few. 5. Fat people eat accumulates.[/nq]
This would be better as: "The fat people eat accumu
I'll deal with this one lower down.
[nq:1]3. The cotton clothing is usually made of grow in Mississippi. 4. The prime number few. 5. Fat people eat accumulates.[/nq]
This would be better as: "The fat people eat accumu
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