 Hi! In this video, we will discuss some selected aspects of syntax. The practical is associated with the unit, language and linguistics. Here are three present-day English sentences. Can you describe in what way they are strange without going into linguistic details? The first sentence involves an example of ambiguity, that is, it has two meanings. Either the relatives are boring, or it is boring to visit them. The second sentence is syntactically fine, that is, the word order of present-day English is adhered to. However, the sentence is almost meaningless. Normally, ideas do not sleep, let alone furiously. Ideas have no color, and if something is green, it cannot be colorless at the same time. At first sight, the third sentence seems to be meaningless or even ungrammatical, but it is not. The problem is that it involves a reduced relative clause, which can be shown by adding who was. By default, however, we tend to analyze asked as a finite verb in the past tense, but here it is a past participle.