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 …

…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