English Explanatory Dictionary

donkey sentence

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

donkey sentence donkey sentences

Related words

donkey anaphora donkey pronoun
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