List of linguistic example sentences
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The following sentences illustrate various linguistic phenomena:
- Independence of syntax:
- Lexical ambiguity:
- Time flies like an arrow...
- Fruit flies like a banana. (Groucho Marx)
- Syntactic ambiguity:
- The man saw the boy with the telescope.
- Syntactic ambiguity and incrementality (see Garden path sentence):
- The horse raced past the barn fell.
- Semantic scope ambiguity and anaphora resolution:
- Every farmer who owns a donkey beats it.