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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Hi. native speakers

I am studying syntax of Enlgish.
Now, I am confusing with a problem.. but I don't have any intuition of natives', so I want to ask whether " the people see the culpture from the museum" can have two meanings.
That is, the first interpetation is that they see the culpture which is from the museum.
Second is that from the museum, they can see the culpture.

In Korea, many people say that the second one is weired, but I can not agree with it.

Please help me..

thanks!
  

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You mean " s culpture". Both interpretations are possible in theory. The first one implies that the sculpture has been moved from the museum to some other location.

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  • You mean " s culpture".
  • Both interpretations are possible in theory.
  • The first one implies that the sculpture has been moved from the museum to some other location.
  • The second one seems less usual, and means that people stand in the museum and look at a sculpture outside the museum.
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You mean "sculpture".

Both interpretations are possible in theory. The first one implies that the sculpture has been moved from the museum to some other location. The second one seems less usual, and means that people stand in the museum and look at a sculpture outside the museum.
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