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Garden path sentences

by selango » Mon Oct 25, 2010 9:17 am
Psycholinguistics uses "garden path sentences," which is grammatically correct but require reinterpretation by the end, for example "The woman whistling tunes pianos," to show that people build their understanding of a sentence one word at a time.

A. Psycholinguistics uses "garden path sentences," which is grammatically correct but require reinterpretation by the end, for example "The woman whistling tunes pianos," to show that people build their understanding of a sentence one word at a time

B. Psycholinguistics uses "garden path sentences," which are grammatically correct but require reinterpretation by the end, for example "The woman whistling tunes pianos," to show that people build his or her understanding of a sentence one word at a time

C. Psycholinguistics uses grammatically correct but requiring reinterpretation by the end "garden path sentences," as "The woman whistling tunes pianos," to show that people build their understanding of a sentence one word at a time

D. "Garden path sentences" such as "The woman whistling tunes pianos" are grammatically correct but require reinterpretation by the end, and are used in psycholinguistics to show that people build their understanding of a sentence one word at a time


E. "Garden path sentences" such as "The woman whistling tunes pianos" are grammatically correct but require reinterpretation by the end, and are used in psycholinguistics to show that people build his or her understanding of a sentence one word at a time

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by clock60 » Mon Oct 25, 2010 9:25 am
D to me

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by shovan85 » Mon Oct 25, 2010 10:05 am
Awesome!! Now whats the answer ? ;)

IMO E

I preferred the usage of such as and people learn individually so "his or her".

A: "which is": sentences are
B: after "for example" who uses this should be mentioned there I feel.
C: after "as" they use or people use "The woman whistling tunes pianos," is required
D: No problem but "people" is a collective noun I think. "Their" is wrong
E: Left after POE

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by selango » Mon Oct 25, 2010 9:01 pm
OA D
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by shovan85 » Tue Oct 26, 2010 1:55 am
selango wrote:OA D
People is not a collective noun?
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by selango » Tue Oct 26, 2010 2:04 am
shovan85 wrote:
selango wrote:OA D
People is not a collective noun?
People is plural.

Person is singular form.
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by Arcane66 » Tue Oct 26, 2010 8:42 am
This one took me more than 2 minutes and is not an SC that you would be likely to see on the real GMAT. However, I picked D because none of the others made perfect sense. His or her would refer to a singular noun or pronoun, not people (which is plural).

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by kapur.arnav » Tue Oct 26, 2010 9:36 am
selango wrote:Psycholinguistics uses "garden path sentences," which is grammatically correct but require reinterpretation by the end, for example "The woman whistling tunes pianos," to show that people build their understanding of a sentence one word at a time.
A. Psycholinguistics uses "garden path sentences," which is grammatically correct but require reinterpretation by the end, for example "The woman whistling tunes pianos," to show that people build their understanding of a sentence one word at a time - should be are (garden path sentences)...

B. Psycholinguistics uses "garden path sentences," which are grammatically correct but require reinterpretation by the end, for example "The woman whistling tunes pianos," to show that people build his or her understanding of a sentence one word at a time - should be their as people are plural... not his or her...

C. Psycholinguistics uses grammatically correct but requiring reinterpretation by the end "garden path sentences," as "The woman whistling tunes pianos," to show that people build their understanding of a sentence one word at a time - all messed up.. very akward...

D. "Garden path sentences" such as "The woman whistling tunes pianos" are grammatically correct but require reinterpretation by the end, and are used in psycholinguistics to show that people build their understanding of a sentence one word at a time - best

E. "Garden path sentences" such as "The woman whistling tunes pianos" are grammatically correct but require reinterpretation by the end, and are used in psycholinguistics to show that people build his or her understanding of a sentence one word at a time - same error as B...

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