Ambiguity
Title: Ambiguity
Category: /Society & Culture/Education
Details: Words: 1398 | Pages: 5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Ambiguity
Category: /Society & Culture/Education
Details: Words: 1398 | Pages: 5 (approximately 235 words/page)
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 
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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

