A word or a sentence is ambiguous if it can be understood or interpreted in more than one way.

We can mention two types of ambiguity :
Semantic ambiguity which depends on the meaning of a word or words which themselves can be misinterpreted.
Syntactic ambiguity means that the grammatical construction of the phrase or sentence brings about the misinterpretation - the word order or the fact that a word could be either a noun or a verb.

Now let's know more about ambiguous sentences and try to recognize the 2 interpretations of the required sentence .. The one who answers the sentence should put another sentence for the others to let them interpret his/her ambiguous sentence

There are 2 interpretations for this sentence :
The old matron fed her dog biscuits

 
حلواني,
Come on it's not so difficult If you analyse and divide it you can know the answer

 
I knew the answer
The old matron fed her dog biscuits
I think matron is the ambiguous word here. It is Semantic ambiguity.

 
1- the old matron fed the dog some biscuits
2- the old matron fed her(another woman) biscuits of dogs

my sentence is

visiting relatives can be boring

 
1- You may get bored when you visit relatives.
2- You may visit relatives who are boring.

* My sentence:
No entry signs were put near the main gate

 
try again

you have to think in the first word as an adjective

 
Raghad,
As usual a nice and useful topic.
God bless you sweety.


Lina, I think it may mean also "The relatives who visit them can be boring"

Wissamo, 1- There were no entry signs near the main gate
2- It is an answer that has the opposite meaning of the first interpretation
No, entry signs were put near the main gate.

 
Lina,
Well, I didn't think about it that much. I think Abeer got it right.
عبير,
True
But where is your sentence?

 
Thanx for you all for enriching this topic

OK. I'll add mine now until she prepares hers

She told me to leave at 5 o'clock