A judicious use of commas helps to avoid misinterpretation. I'd also hazard to note, at the risk of sounding like a get-off-my-lawn prescriptive grammarian, that many garden path sentences achieve their ambiguity via hanging prepositions, e.g.:

>The cotton clothing is made of grows in Mississippi.

Yet the most general pattern seems to be a simple matter of loading too many words into the subject clause [1], e.g.:

>The car driven past the barn crashed.

We don't reach the verb until the last word, which not only opens the door to ambiguity but also produces flaccid prose. You will produce tighter, sharper sentences by front-loading the predicate verb.

[1] - edited from "too many clauses" as per telemachos's astute reply.