donkey sentence

noun

A sentence that contains a pronoun with clear meaning (bound semantically) but whose syntactic role poses a challenge.

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Meanings

noundonkey sentence (plural donkey sentences)

plural donkey sentences

  1. grammarA sentence that contains a pronoun with clear meaning (bound semantically) but whose syntactic role poses a challenge.
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Chicago

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