These so-called garden path sentences will make you rip your hair out. Why are they so frustrating? You’ll see. Think you ...

A phrase acts as a single unit of meaning – for example ‘their pet Siamese cat’, ‘the fast-paced Hollywood film’. A phrase does not include a verb.

On any given day, there are a number of sentences, phrases and captions in national newspapers that puzzle. When such sentences are not a direct assault on grammar, they are full of ambiguity.

According to Merriam-Webster: “Ambiguous has, like many words in English, more than one possible meaning; a quality some might refer to as ambiguous itself.