Re-analysis of A Garden Path Sentence
When ambiguous nouns appear, they can function as both the object of the first item or the subject of the second item. In that case the former use is preferred. It is also found out that the reanalysis of a garden path sentence gets more and more difficult with the length of the ambiguous phrase.
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Famous quotes containing the words garden, path and/or sentence:
“When the deep purple falls over sleepy garden walls, and the stars begin to flicker in the sky,”
—Mitchell Parish (1901–1993)
“The path of things is silent. Will they suffer a speaker to go with them?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)