Garden Path SentencesFrom Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct (1995): I kissed Joan and Mary laughed. Fat people eat accumulates. I know the words to that song don't rhyme. She told me a little white lie will come back to haunt me. The cotton clothing is made of is grown in Mississippi. The man who hunts ducks out on weekends. The prime number few. Helen is expecting next week to be unusually busy. The raft floated down the river sank. "A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone." — Henry Thoreau, Walden |