Comment by alt227
7 days ago
Thankyou that makes sense!
So in reality this is just an incorrect sentence. It should be written as
"The horse that raced past the barn fell"
7 days ago
Thankyou that makes sense!
So in reality this is just an incorrect sentence. It should be written as
"The horse that raced past the barn fell"
It should be.
But it’s not incorrect to say
But when you don’t end the subject syntagma in an obvious way, you make it difficult to read.
It’s easier to read
because grown has a distinct past particle form. The past particle of raced is raced, which means you need more lookahead to determine its role in the sentence.
You can artificially push out the point at which the sentence disambiguates between whether the word is past tense or past particle, and make it seem that it’s probably past tense until it can’t be.
You could say that the sentence is LL(k) for an unintuitively high k.
It’s ambigous, but is it incorrect?
If language is constantly changing due to how people use it rather than sticking to a strict set of rules, then in my opinion gramatically correct sentences should always be explicit and never ambiguous.