The following is a partial list of linguistic example sentences illustrating various linguistic phenomena.
Demonstrations of how incremental and (at least partially) local syntactic parsing leads to infelicitous constructions and interpretations.
Punctuation can be used to introduce ambiguity or misunderstandings where none needed to exist. One well known example,[14] for comedic effect, is from A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare (ignoring the punctuation provides the alternate reading).
Some prescriptive grammar prohibits "preposition stranding": ending sentences with prepositions.[15]
Demonstrations of sentences which are unlikely to have ever been said, although the combinatorial complexity of the linguistic system makes them possible.
Demonstrations of sentences where the semantic interpretation is bound to context or knowledge of the world.