Expertlatin
- What is an example of garden path sentences?
- What is garden path sentences theory?
- Why are they called garden path sentences?
What is an example of garden path sentences?
“The horse raced past the barn fell” is an example of a garden path sentence, whose meaning can be more clearly described when phrased as “the horse which was raced past the barn fell”.
What is garden path sentences theory?
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.
Why are they called garden path sentences?
Such sentences are known as garden path sentences, because they lead the reader up the proverbial “garden path.” That is, they lead the reader to a destination that differs from the one first promised.
