Garden-Path Sentences and Jokes
Word play makes writing even more fun.
Here's a link for garden-path sentences and garden-path jokes.
I also love ambiguous sentences. They often pop up, unplanned, in whatever I'm writing and end up edited out.
My all-time favourite ambiguous sentence is: Visiting relatives can be a bore.
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What a great ambiguous sentence.
ReplyDeleteI find it's really hard to spot unintentionally ambiguous ones in my own writing and I trust my CP's to spot them. I find them in their's sometimes... Where what they wrote is so not what they meant... But it could be read like they meant it, too.
Thank you, thank you. Although I can't take credit for inventing that particular ambiguous sentence. I remember from a linguistics course back in my speech path days. :)
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