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See also garden-path sentences. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence "The old man the boat."
by Symmetry 7y ago
See also garden-path sentences.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence
"The old man the boat."
"The complex houses married and single soldiers and their families."
"The horse raced past the barn fell."
- Xophmeister 7y ago"The horse raced past the barn fell" is embedded just one level deep. Besides it becoming completely unintelligible, there's nothing to say that you can't nest arbitrarily: The dog the cat the mouse liked hated barked. Of course, language isn't prescriptive, so it's arguable if this is allowed. It's grammatical, in a technical sense, but not acceptable to, I'd imagine, most English speakers.