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The following sentence, due to Noam Chomsky, has a correct grammatical structure, but is meaningless

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The following sentence, due to Noam Chomsky, has a correct grammatical structure, but is meaningless. Critique its faults. "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously." (Chomsky, Noam. Syntactic Structures, The Hague/Paris: Mouton, 1957. p. 15.)

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n adjacent pairs the words are contradictory or inappropriate. Something cannot be both green and colorless, ideas do not have color, ideas do not sleep, and it is hard to sleep furiously.

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