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Tkacka15 Posted 11 years ago
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Is the sentence They retreated before the attack ambiguous?
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Yes. In the temporal sense of "before," they retreated although the enemy hadn't attacked yet. In the spatial sense of "before," they retreated in front of the enemy.
- Yes.
- In the temporal sense of "before," they retreated although the enemy hadn't attacked yet.
- In the spatial sense of "before," they retreated in front of the enemy.
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Yes. In the temporal sense of "before," they retreated although the enemy hadn't attacked yet.
In the spatial sense of "before," they retreated in front of the enemy.
In the spatial sense of "before," they retreated in front of the enemy.
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