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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
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Naturalness of a sentence
Please evaluate the naturalness of below sentence:
How are public libraries’ services and facilities provided to the disabled assessed?
How are public libraries’ services and facilities provided to the disabled assessed?
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It's a 'garden path' sentence. The reader will think the sentence is finished before the last word. How are public libraries’ services and facilities provided to the disabled?
- It's a 'garden path' sentence.
- The reader will think the sentence is finished before the last word.
- How are public libraries’ services and facilities provided to the disabled?
- How are (these things) provided (to the disabled)?
- Then the word 'assessed' shows up unexpectedly, and the reader has to go back and read the whole sentence again.
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It's a 'garden path' sentence.
The reader will think the sentence is finished before the last word.
How are public libraries’ services and facilities provided to the disabled?
How are (these things) provided (to the disabled)?
Then the word 'assessed' shows up unexpectedly, and the reader has to go back and read the whole sentence again.
It's not clea
The reader will think the sentence is finished before the last word.
How are public libraries’ services and facilities provided to the disabled?
How are (these things) provided (to the disabled)?
Then the word 'assessed' shows up unexpectedly, and the reader has to go back and read the whole sentence again.
It's not clea
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