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garden path sentence noun

  /ˈɡɑːdən pɑːθ ˈsɛntəns/ , /ˈɡɑːɹdən pæθ ˈsɛntəns/
  • (linguistics) A sentence that is easily parsed incorrectly when first read, due to the ambiguity of a word or words.
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