garden path sentence

Noun

Meaning

Examples



The horse raced past the barn fell.After Marie ate the cake turned out to be stale.The government plans to raise taxes were defeated.


garden path sentence (plural garden path sentences)

(linguistics) A sentence that is easily parsed incorrectly when first read, due to ambiguity of a word or words.

garden-path sentence (plural garden-path sentences)

Alternative spelling of garden path sentence

Alternative names

garden-path sentence

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