The sentence "The bicycle talked the boy into buying a candy bar" is

A. syntactically correct but semantically incorrect.
B. pragmatically correct but syntactically incorrect.
C. semantically correct but syntactically incorrect.
D. syntactically and pragmatically incorrect.


Answer: A

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