Ambiguous Sentences .. Try and add yours

Raghad

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

Hi Raghad.. acually I am not good enough in ambiguous sentenses :cry:

but I will try.. thank you

Raghad

حلواني,
Come on it's not so difficult :wink:

If you analyse and divide it you can know the answer :wink:

سحر

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

Lina

اقتباس:

The old matron fed her dog biscuits

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

my sentence is

visiting relatives can be boring

*sla

Wissam

اقتباس:

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

Lina

اقتباس:

2- You may visit relatives who are boring.

try again

you have to think in the first word as an adjective

زمردة

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

Lina,

اقتباس:

visiting relatives can be boring

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

Wissamo,

اقتباس:

No, entry signs were put near the main gate

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.

Wissam

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

Raghad

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

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