I concur about the grammatical fixes. As a native British English speaker I didn't actually have any trouble parsing any of the sentences save for the "The hor

I concur about the grammatical fixes. As a native British English speaker I didn't actually have any trouble parsing any of the sentences save for the "The horse raced past the barn fell" because it was written without the customary punctuational scaffolding. 'The old man the boat' seemed fine to me too, not sure why. I'd be interested to hear if other British English folks had much trouble with these sentences. Perhaps it's a by product of being exposed to too many 'dad jokes' (Fruit flies like a banana) but perhaps it's a more general condition of British English humour that made me feel familiar with this type of sentence structure.