Garden Path sentence

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"What has four wheels and flies?". The answer, "a garbage truck",

Garden path sentences are used in psycholinguistics to illustrate that human beings process language one word at a time. The name refers to the saying "to be led up the garden path", meaning "to be misled".

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"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo." is a grammatically correct sentence used as an example of how homonyms and homophones can be used to create complicated constructs.

'Buffalo bison whom other Buffalo bison bully themselves bully Buffalo bison'.