I love Linguistics! It's sucha bugger! :) We covered some really interesting stuff yesterday and it took me awhile to get a few of them...
Check out the following sentences.. they ARE legal sentences in English:
The horse raced past the barn fell.
The man who hunts ducks out on weekends.
The cotton clothes are made from grows in Mississipi.
Since Keith always walks a mile seems like a short distance to him.
And there are many more!!! Can you see how these senteces are actually correct? Or has your syntactic parser been led down the garden path like these sentences are supposed to do? Well, they actually aren't all that complex. Let's have a go at it together and make some sense of them!
The horse raced past the barn fell.
In clearer terms: The horse that was being raced (past the barn) fell!!
The man who hunts ducks out on weekends.
Also: The man who hunts (not necessarily hunts ducks!) ducks out on weekends.
The cotton clothes are made from grows in Mississipi.
Also: The cotton that clothes are made from... grows in Mississipi.
Since Keith always walks a mile seems like a short distance to him.
Also: Since Keith always walks, a mile seems like a short distance to him. (Oh! The magic of the COMMA).
See the logic now? :)
Recordings of psychological and linguistic instances in everyday life- how to transform what you read in textbooks into real life scenarios. I so love what I read. And may I write in Japanese?
4 comments:
I don't get the last one. Both sentence sounds the same to me, With comma and without comma
ooh ha ha lemme rephrase it (I'm bad at expressing myself ha ha)...
"Since Keith always walks a mile seems short to him"
A mile seems short to Keith BECAUSE he always walks.
:P
Great work.
That that is, is. That that is not, is not. Is that it? It is.
James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher
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These are all grammatically correct sentences. Very good huh?
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