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Shakespeare loves to do this: "Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer..."

• kccqzy 11y ago
  I don't think that's an example of a garden path sentence though. My initial parse is "whether or not suffering in the mind is nobler". "In the mind" is an adverbial phrase that modifies "to suffer". Am I missing anything?
  • foxhedgehog 11y ago
    "Is nobler" turns out to modify "in the mind."
  • petercooper 11y ago
    Maybe I've misunderstood all this time, but I thought "in the mind" meant to think about suffering, not literally suffer in the mind. That is to say, more like "whether or not one thinks suffering is nobler".