garden path sentence


a sentence that when read, causes unintentional confusion because the reader thinks it means one thing when actual meaning is different from reader’s said meaning.
james: i’ll never get this report on “why english is butchered” done.

robert: james, time flies like arrows, fruit flies like bananas.

james: will you stop using that gibberish?, everybody knows that neither fruit nor bananas fly.

robert: for someone who’s a an english major, you know nothing about garden path sentences.

james: i should’ve known.

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