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garden path sentence
A noun phrase is a group of words that acts like a noun in a sentence or phrase (e.g., un je ne sais quoi).
a. la phrase labyrinthe (F)
(f) means that a noun is feminine. French nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la dame or la lune) or masculine (like l'homme or le soleil).
The English sentence "The horse raced past the barn fell" is one of the most famous garden path sentences in linguistics.La phrase anglaise « The horse raced past the barn fell » est l'une des phrases labyrinthes les plus célèbres en linguistique.
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