garden-paths
garden-paths is the third-person singular simple present indicative of garden-path.
Meaning of garden-path
Verb
garden-path (third-person singular simple present garden-paths, present participle garden-pathing, simple past and past participle garden-pathed)
- To mislead with a garden path sentence.
- Therefore, a sentence with an initial gap, such as Who asked Meg to persuade Jill to inform Ted that Bob had spoken to Tom?, would garden path an active parser just as often as (17) would, and both sentences would be considerably more troublesome to an active parser than to a passive one.1978, Janet Dean Fodor, “Parsing Strategies and Constraints on Transformations”, in Linguistic Inquiry, volume 9, number 3, →JSTOR, page 443
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- What is garden-paths the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
- Garden-paths is the third-person singular simple present indicative of garden-path.
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