{"id":6926,"date":"2023-09-12T22:35:31","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T22:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365-life-hacks\/?p=6926"},"modified":"2024-08-27T05:26:32","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T05:26:32","slug":"what-is-a-garden-path-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365-life-hacks\/writing\/what-is-a-garden-path-sentence","title":{"rendered":"What is a garden-path sentence?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"main-content\" data-grid=\"col-12\">\n<p class=\"c-paragraph-3\">Just because a sentence is grammatically correct, doesn\u2019t make it good. For example, read this: \u201cThe sentence that I had really worked poorly.\u201d You tripped over those words and had to re-read the sentence just to figure out what it was trying to convey. How frustrating. 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