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In linguistic text, ambiguity is the possibility of two quite different meanings with exactly the same wording. Identifying and correcting ambiguity can sharpen your writing and copy-editing skills. Ambiguity occurs in all languages, but English is particularly prone. Unlike other Germanic languages,
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The impact on the world economy of new and rapid networks of transport and communications at the end of the 19th century was at least as dramatic as the transformation wrought by the Internet and the deregulation and liberalization of financial markets a century later.
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The exercises below are meant to be entertaining. Often the task is a puzzle, and some of the unintended meanings can be amusing. To make it more challenging, ambiguous sentences are mixed randomly with some that are unambiguous: it would be too easy if you knew that
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Does "turning to" mean "turning into" or "resorting to"? Beer drinkers could be morphing into talcum powder or they could be changing their preferred drug from alcohol to cocaine. Another example from Burton-Roberts's
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example was ambiguous. Some that are ambiguous would be perfectly fine in a larger context, and some wouldn't; but here, you're asked to consider the examples in isolation. This is a laboratory situation, if you like.
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Wrong. This is a problem that English is particularly prone to, because it's lost most of the tags that show how the components of a sentence relate to each other. There are three possible meanings; try to think of
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much of its morphological grammar was stripped away more than a thousand years ago; so the way modern English phrases and clauses relate to each other is complicated, and many words can function in several ways.
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Right. Did the government learn the lessons together with the people (and now wants to share those lessons with unstated entities)? Or did the government learn the lessons and now wants to share them with the
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Desha argued that a large standing army provided the advocates of a larger federal government with an excuse to increase taxes, and proposed that the standing army consist of only 6,000 men.
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Meaning 2: The current laws are designed to prevent media companies from gaining dominance in any one capital city, which those companies could do by limiting their ownership of television.
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More surprisingly to Halperin, some gay commentators were extremely critical, seeing in his course descriptions a reversal of blatant stereotypes that excluded many homosexual men.
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is the problem. Are the dogs barking while they stand at the entrance (the verb is "bark"), or are they looking at the entrance and barking at it (the phrasal verb is "bark at")?
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Hawking's unimpressive study habits resulted in a final examination score on the borderline between first- and second-class honours, making an oral examination necessary.
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The flagship event takes place in Delhi, where the prime minister hoists the national flag at the Red Fort and delivers a nationally broadcast speech from its ramparts.
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In technical terms, is "shared" adjectival (what kind of views? shared views); or is it verbal (a doing expression: they've already shared those views in a discussion)?
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Correct. Without a comma after "(1824–96)", there's a tugging towards the meaning that it was the only documentary on the composer that Fischer filmed in the 1970s.
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Meaning 1: By limiting media companies' ownership of television, the current laws are designed to prevent them from gaining dominance in any one capital city.
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Correct. How to reword? One way is to make the subject not "good will toward the project" (with "good will" as the head), but "the project". Maybe this?
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Ambiguity may be removed by changing the word order, the grammar, or the punctuation, or by substituting a word that is unambiguous in the context.
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The current laws are designed to prevent media companies from gaining dominance in any one capital city by limiting their ownership of television.
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Please consider the satisfaction you might gain from joining the global effort to build the largest repository of knowledge in human history, by
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It is one of a group of closely related animals that are descended from a common ancestral line of toads and which form a species complex.
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Is she spinning clockwise or anti-clockwise? To switch, try following the shadow for a while instead; then look up to the raised leg itself.
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We enable code contributions from community and staff while protecting the quality and security of MediaWiki as it supports our projects.
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Correct. Do they survive by living on (that is, by drinking) water, or do the dwellings they live in float on water rather being on land?
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or "This is the only documentary on the famous composer Anton Bruckner (1824–96), which was filmed in the 1970s by Hans Conrad Fischer."
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comes in visual as well as linguistic forms: the duck–rabbit illusion is a good example (the duck faces left, the rabbit faces right).
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Whether and how you rephrase this depends on the context. The example comes from a promotional page for Noel Burton-Roberts's book
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So, "This is the only documentary on the famous composer Anton Bruckner (1824–96), filmed in the 1970s by Hans Conrad Fischer,"
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System 2 in Kahneman’s scheme is our slow, deliberate, analytical, and consciously effortful mode of reasoning about the world.
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This is the only documentary ever on the famous composer Anton Bruckner (1824–96) filmed in the 1970s by Hans Conrad Fischer.
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Correct. Was it the course descriptions or the blatant stereotypes that excluded many homosexual men? I'm still unsure.
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Correct. Was the undertaking to maximise free speech by minimising racial-hatred protections; or did the government
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The government retreated from its undertaking to maximise free speech by minimising racial-hatred protections.
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Yes. There are three possible meanings; try to identify them in your mind before clicking on "Extra" below.
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MediaWiki supports our projects. I've pointed this out, but the Wikimedia Foundation still hadn't fixed
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Meaning 1: In that video she spoke about the idea of information patterns that can't physically exist.
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Instructions: Decide whether this is ambiguous or not; then click on your decision. (If you think it
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tasty meals"). There can be grammatical ambiguity, beyond the scope of individual words: "we asked
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or if you like: The nearby Epsilon Aurigae is an eclipsing binary with an unusually long period.
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The scenes in which Mulder infiltrates the facility were shot at a real United States airbase.
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ambiguous, try to identify the two meanings in your mind, and then click open the box labelled
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Correct. Does "someone" mean a particular person in Sacramento, or any person in Sacramento?
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She spoke about the idea of information patterns that can't physically exist in that video.
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The ambiguous phrase is adapted from an option descriptor in WP's editor preferences page (
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Meaning 1: Critical attention has focused on patterns of media consumption and engagement
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One of his fellow judges, Sir Robin Dunn, described him as the worst judge since the war.
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No, there's uncertainty about "ever" and how it relates to the last part of the sentence.
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Critical attention has focused on changing patterns of media consumption and engagement.
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Meaning 1: Nearby is Epsilon Aurigae, an eclipsing binary with an unusually long period.
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Some of the examples in the lead are adapted from a book by Noel Burton-Roberts, from a
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English does have unfortunate engineering faults, such as the idiomatic ambiguity in "I
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Meaning 2: Account for the number of dinner guests when judging how much lamb to cook.
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Take the ornament off the chair that is by the door and put it in the living room.
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Take the ornament that is on the chair and put it by the door in the living room.
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ambiguous, first think through what the alternative meanings are.) Then click on
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the cup she had chipped"). Hyphens (and en dashes) can make a difference ("a sen
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Correct. Is Epsilon Aurigae nearby something else, just mentioned previously?
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Nearby Epsilon Aurigae is an eclipsing binary with an unusually long period.
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If you think there's no possible double meaning, click on the box labelled
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For each exercise, we ask you to decide whether the sentence is ambiguous.
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Meaning 2: This function will add any pages you move to your watchlist.
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The same word, for example, can often serve as a noun or a verb ("Union
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Meaning 1: This function will add to your watchlist any pages you move.
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Put the ornament onto the chair that is by the door in the living room.
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the information patterns that can't physically exist within that video
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The government is ready to share the lessons learned with the people.
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Epsilon Aurigae is an eclipsing binary with an unusually long period.
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Correct. Who's doing the limiting? The laws or the media companies?
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Wrong. This is contextual ambiguity, surrounding the word "include".
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Everyone in San Francisco is thinking about someone in Sacramento.
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Uh-oh. Which two things could be "a remarkable feat of altruism"?
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The difference is whether the verbal item is "add" or "add to".
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d President Obama", referring to four rather than two people).
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from that undertaking by minimising racial-hatred protections?
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Put the ornament on the chair by the door in the living room.
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Copy-editing essentials, part of the Military History Academy
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Meaning 1: They have shared their views on the euro crisis.
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Correct. Was it found next to the hotel (on the passageway
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A white vase, or two silhouette profiles facing each other?
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Wrong, I'm afraid. The nub of the ambiguity is "changing".
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Try thinking it through again; then click on the next box.
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Try thinking it through again; then click on the next box.
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Try thinking it through again; then click on the next box.
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Try thinking it through again; then click on the next box.
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ambiguous. The crux of the problem lies in the word "by".
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This function will add pages you move to your watchlist.
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Wrong. How does "learned" fit into the sentence, exactly?
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Include the dinner guests when preparing the roast lamb.
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Feedback on how to improve these exercises is welcome on
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ass teacher" is a class teacher who is senior, but "a sen
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It's the only ambiguity in Andrew Lih's excellent piece
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Meaning 2: They share the same view on the euro crisis.
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Meaning 3: Put the guests in the oven with the lamb.
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Meaning 1: Ask the guests to help with the cooking.
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User:Tony1

Ambiguity


MOS:HYPHEN
becoming a registered editor
the talk page
Exercises in weeding out fluff from article text
Advanced editing exercises
Spot the ambiguity
Build your linking skills
Using hyphens and dashes
Copy-editing essentials, part of the Military History Academy
edit
a New York Times book review
Tony Judt
Dennis Altman
their wording
"Can Knowledge Survive"
Constructive ambiguity
Optical illusion
Syntactic ambiguity
The New York Times About.com on grammar and composition
The Standford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Category
User essays on style

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