What is the term for the ambiguous sentence?
I regret to ask the same question to many people. If I’m not following proper protocol, I’m unable to find the exact answer.
I’m a teacher, and in another StackExchange, I wrote the following, in regard to a policy that I discuss during the first day of class:
I mention that I won’t tolerate on the first day of class.
Is grade-grubbing considered rude? When I first speak to a guy, I don’t want anyone to see my first grading. I want them to get marks they have to show or do something that makes me feel bad. What
is the exact meaning behind ambiguity?
What are some of the best examples of this?
This seems to me to be a misplaced modifier, also called dangling modifier. In the first sentence of class “on the first day of class,” is rephrasing in syntactically so that it apparently refers to” grade-grubbing. Derive any concept from the inadvertent positioning of the phrase. “This phrase is misleading”
What is this common mistake? “Buried under the snow, George found an old boot.” When I became a teenager who discovered that George hadn’t buried himself under the snow, he didn’t.
(Dan’s thoughtful analysis of anaphor resolution seems helpful, but that generally is a matter of pronoun confusion — figuring out which of more than one referent is linked to a particular pronoun.) (And if John Lawler
weighs in on this question, he’ll set us all straight.
