28.1143, Qs: Awkward Sentence

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Subject: 28.1143, Qs: Awkward Sentence

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Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2017 17:40:13
From: Winnie Tong [cuteskunky at yahoo.ca]
Subject: Awkward Sentence

 
Is there anything wrong with this sentence:  ''The gardens are relaxing.''  It
appears the gardens are doing the action of relaxing.
 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Semantics
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): English (eng)



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