Garden Path Linguistics
Garden Path Sentences are quite an interesting abuse or use of language.
From Wikipedia:
“Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.”
“The horse raced past the barn fell.”
The reader usually starts to parse this as an ordinary active intransitive sentence, but stumbles upon reaching the word “fell.” At this point, the reader is forced to backtrack and look for other structures …. The correct reading is then:
“The horse (that was raced past the barn) fell.”
It’s interesting how we double take on sentences like these. The first one is more of a play on words, and is my favourite. The horse sentence indicates an unclear sentence that is jumbled and syntactically and semantically incorrect (that’s my take).