Excuse the tardiness, had assumed this was considered homework, and due on Sunday.
SSLE.M10
Each sentence below has at least two meanings. Identify the source of the double meaning, and rewrite the sentence (at least twice) to clearly convey each meaning.
- They are baking potatoes.
‘They’ is ambigious A group is baking potatoes. The potatoes in focus are of type ‘baking’
- He bought many ripe pears and apricots.
The cumulative adjectives can only be interpretted correctly one way.
He bought many pears, all of which were ripe is an example of coordinate adjectives and would be an incorrect interpretation.
He bought many ripe pears and an ambigious amount, of unknown status apricots. is an example of an incomplete second clause ‘and apricots’ and invalidates the entire sentence.
He bought many ripe pears, and many ripe apricots is the only correct way to interpret this sentence.
She likes his sculpture. ‘Sculpture’ meaning is ambigious She likes his body physique She likes this man’s owned statue
I decided on the bus.
‘on’ can describe whereabouts both temporal and physical I decision was the bus I made a decision while on the bus