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fnuegbu

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Which of these is a garden-path sentence?
 
  a) They are cooking rocks.
   b) The horse raced past the barn fell.
   c) John went to the grocery store and bought a car.
   d) Susan walked up the garden path.

Question 2

The difficulty in processing garden-path sentences:
 
  a) confirms that the default structure in English syntax tends to be subject-object-verb.
   b) is evidence against the garden-path approach.
   c) is evident in reading times, but not in eye movements.
   d) applies to blind readers of Braille.


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Tonny

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Reply #1 on: Jun 20, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Answer: b

Answer to Question 2

Answer: d


fnuegbu

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Reply 2 on: Jun 20, 2018
YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review

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Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

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