garden path sentence

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Etymology

From the idiom lead down a garden path

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Noun

garden path sentence (plural garden path sentences)

  1. A sentence that is easily incorrectly parsed on a first read, due to ambiguity of a word or words.

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Last modified on 10 November 2012, at 13:59