Garden Path Sentence - Re-analysis of A Garden Path Sentence

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:

    “Two wooden tubs of blue hydrangeas stand at the foot of the stone steps.
    The sky is a blue gum streaked with rose. The trees are black.
    The grackles crack their throats of bone in the smooth air.
    Moisture and heat have swollen the garden into a slum of bloom.
    Pardie! Summer is like a fat beast, sleepy in mildew....”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “What is the use of going right over the old track again? There is an adder in the path which your own feet have worn. You must make tracks into the Unknown.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation?”
    —Bible: New Testament, Luke 23:40.

    One of the criminals crucified with Jesus , to the other.