You hear your brother say,"The dog was walked by Mom." The next sentence you say,"This morning,John was hit by Mike," has similar sentence structure.This similarity results from

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The similarity between the two sentences is a result of syntactical priming, which occurs when the syntax (sentence structure) of one sentence influences the syntax of a subsequent sentence. Both sentences follow a subject-verb-object (SVO) structure, with the subject (dog and John) coming before the verb (walked and hit) and the object (Mom and Mike) coming after the verb. This suggests that the structure of the first sentence may have primed the speaker to use a similar syntactical structure in the second sentence.

You Hear Your Brother Say,"The Dog Was Walked by Mom