Does this sentence sound ambiguous?
A. I made a decision for him to skip grade 6.
To me A sounds like 1 or 2 below.
1. I made a decision that he was going to skip grade 6.
2. I made a decision so that he could skip grade 6.
I think that A can mean 1 only if "for him to skip grade 6" describes "a decision", and A can mean 2 if "for him to skip grade 6" doesn't describe "a decision".
What do you think?? Do you think that A could mean either 1 or 2 according to how "for him to skip grade 6" grammatically functions in sentence A?
And if there's a comma like in "B. I made a decision, for him to skip grade 6", because of the comma, does B mean only 2 unambiguously?
Top answer
A. I made a decision for him to skip grade 6. To me A sounds like 1 or 2 below.
- A.
- I made a decision for him to skip grade 6.
- To me A sounds like 1 or 2 below.
- To me, it sounds like #1 1.
- I made a decision that he was going to skip grade 6.
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A. I made a decision for him to skip grade 6.
To me A sounds like 1 or 2 below.To me, it sounds like #1
1. I made a decision that he was going to skip grade 6. In my opinion, a native speaker would always choose the #1 meaning.
2. I made a decision so that he could skip grade 6. <<< If I wanted this meaning I'd say A it in a different
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