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Garden-Path or Invalid Sentence?

Each of the following is either a “garden-path sentence” (a sentence that is purposely obtuse) or an invalid sentence.
HINT: there are twice as many valid sentences.
Quiz by Dimby
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Last updated: October 12, 2023
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First submittedOctober 12, 2023
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1. The old man the boat.
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2. The boat sank the river went by.
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3. The miserable creep eerily tonight.
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4. A pocket watch the show begins.
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5. The walking path bending the river.
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6. The complex houses married and single soldiers.
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7. The dog flea bitten jumped up.
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8. The pedestrian bridges the gap.
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9. The florist sent the flowers was pleased.
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10. The youth shop employee the discounts.
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11. The man who hunts ducks out on weekends.
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12. The hairy buffalo the clean shaven.
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13. The movie proceeds go to seating.
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14. The coin thrown well wishing.
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15. That Grandpa’s always here matters.
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16. The boat sailed under the bridge collapsed.
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17. The Greek bust the statues.
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18. The women bolted the window laid a trap.
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19. The beauty shops around town for deals.
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20. Flute maintenance and playing tricks the mind.
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21. Fat people eat accumulates.
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overtired
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Level 84
Oct 12, 2023
Love it! Really fun. Bit tight on time.

I went valid on a "A pocket watch the show" thinking pocket could be used to mean a group of people. What do you think?

A large crowd is gathered. A pocket watch the show. The rest are on their phones.

(And I felt like the Bob one needed a comma to be valid but I guess comma use is debatable!)

Dollyfroggy
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Level 60
Oct 12, 2023
The pocket explanation you gave makes sense (I got the question as intended). I also thought the comma was missing in the boat and flowers questions. If commas were added to the dog flea question, then it would be valid.

Love the quiz idea and the time was perfect for me.

Dimby
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Level 77
Oct 12, 2023
Good points. Switched up the Bob question and included another very confusing one. The pocket one of course is a difference between British and North American English. I changed it up anyway, though.
Dollyfroggy
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Level 60
Mar 3, 2024
(This is the wrong quiz, but I couldn't find the original quiz.) I remember on one quiz W was counted as a vowel because it forms a diphthong with O in "town". From what I read online, it seems like W in that instance would be a glide, which the article calls only partly a vowel. So would it still be valid to call W a vowel there?
Dimby
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Level 77
Mar 3, 2024
That’s from the Stupidest Quiz on JetPunk. Most sources I’ve seen says that when w is paired with a, e, or o that it does act as a vowel to form a diphthong.
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