Henrik Theiling wrote:
> Garden path sentences are those that mean something different until
> you read the next word, i.e, you natually think into the wrong
> direction until a word changes everything. Then you have to
> `back track'. E.g. in English, you can wonderfully play with
> a dropped `that':
>
> I see Peter(.) is sleeping.
>
> And the like.
One of the classic garden path sentences is "The horse raced past the
barn fell down". Looks ungrammatical, until you think about it for a
moment...
Matt.