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Ambiguity
Title: Ambiguity
Category: Society & Culture / Education
Details: Words: 1415 | Pages: 6.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
Ambiguity
Assignment: State and Illustrate Levels at which Ambiguity is Possible in Discourse.
In every human language, there are individual expressions used that may have two or more distinct meanings. Thus, a word, phrase or sentence is ambiguous if it has more than, one meaning. Ambiguity, occurs when meaning of a word phrase or sentence can have two possible interpretations and the reader cannot determine from the sentence which is correct. A distinctive feature, of ambiguity …showed first 75 words of 1415 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1415 total…Noun Phrase
THE MAN EATS
<Tab/>
Adjective Noun Conjunction Noun
<Tab/>FRIED FISH AND CHICKEN
2nd Interpretation- The man eats fried fish and chicken that wasn't fried.
Sentence
Noun Phrase Verb Phrase
Det Noun Verb Noun Phrase
THE MAN EATS
Noun Phrase' Conjunction Noun Phrase"
<Tab/>AND<Tab/>
Adjective Noun Noun
FRIED FISH <Tab/>CHICKEN
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