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  

but I will try.. thank you  

[Raghad]

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

[سحر]

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

[Lina]

 

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  

my sentence is

visiting relatives can be boring

[Wissam]

 

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]

 

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,

visiting relatives can be boring

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

 Wissamo,  

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?

[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