Is this sentence ambiguous?
I had a test from my linguistic teacher, in the test we were asked whether a sentence "I don't seem to have a chair" is structurally or lexically ambiguous. Do you think it's an ambiguous sentence?
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Nam Luong I got a test from my teacher. in the test we were asked whether a sentence "I don't seem to have a chair" is structurally or lexically ambiguous. Do you think it's ambiguous sentence?
- Nam Luong I got a test from my teacher.
- in the test we were asked whether a sentence "I don't seem to have a chair" is structurally or lexically ambiguous.
- Do you think it's ambiguous sentence?
- Every sentence, almost, is ambiguous if you look at it long enough.
- " It is the natural way of putting that.
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Nam LuongI got a test from my teacher. in the test we were asked whether a sentence "I don't seem to have a chair" is structurally or lexically ambiguous. Do you think it's ambiguous sentence?
Every sentence, almost, is ambiguous if you look at it long enough. Your sentence, though, is immediately understandable as "As far as I can tell, there is not
0Nam LuongI had a test from my linguistic teacher, in the test we were asked whether a sentence "I don't seem to have a chair" is structurally or lexically ambiguous. Do you think it's an ambiguous sentence?
No, I don't think it's ambiguous, but a word of caution: Linguistics teachers find ambiguity hiding around every corner, not to mention under ev
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