garden-path

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garden-path

verb garden-paths · garden-pathing · garden-pathed · garden path

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.

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@misc{garden_path_2026,
  title = {garden-path},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/garden-path},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}