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panhandle (meaning "to accost") from panhandler [5] paramedic from paramedical; partake from partaker [2] patriation from repatriation; pea from Middle English pease [8] peddle from peddler [2] [4] peeve from peevish [2] [4] pettifog from pettifogger [5] phosphoresce from phosphorescent [2] pleb from plebs; ply from reply; preempt from ...
The following is a partial list of linguistic example sentences illustrating various linguistic phenomena. Ambiguity
Stunk and White, in The Elements of Style believe one should recast enough of them to remove the monotony, replacing them by simple sentences, by sentences of two clauses joined by a semicolon, by periodic sentences of two clauses, by sentences, loose or periodic, of three clauses—whichever best represent the real relations of the thought.
A garden-path sentence is a grammatically correct sentence that starts in such a way that a reader's most likely interpretation will be incorrect; the reader is lured into a parse that turns out to be a dead end or yields a clearly unintended meaning.
ar-rajul-u the man mudarris-u-n a teacher ar-rajul-u mudarris-u-n {the man} {a teacher} the man is a teacher AdjP predicate الرجل مريض ar-rajul-u the man marīḍ-un sick ar-rajul-u marīḍ-un {the man} sick the man is sick PP predicate الرجل في المدرسة ar-rajulu the man fī in l-madrasa the school ar-rajulu fī l-madrasa {the man} in {the school} the man is in the ...