When we start reading a piece of text, how do our brains know to read it in such a way that accounts for both the upcoming punctuation and sentence structure that we haven’t gotten to yet?

Question

When we start reading a piece of text, how do our brains know to read it in such a way that accounts for both the upcoming punctuation and sentence structure that we haven’t gotten to yet?

In: Biology

Answer 1

This is why it is so confusing when you read a sentence that someone has mistranslated or something, where you go back and read it like three times in a row, and still you’re like “okay, these are *words*, but with this weird ordering, what the hell are they trying to say!?”