Ambiguous
/ ambiguity is a word or phrase that has more meaning darh one or ambiguous. Structurally
ambiguous sentences or grammatical own right, but the meaning of the sentence
raises a double meaning or more than one meaning. In
spoken language, the interpretation of this ambiguous sentence probably will
not happen because of the lack of distinction in pronunciation. However,
the written language (written) This dual interpretation can only occur if the
markers spelling incomplete.
Example:
1.
He spend twenty thousand.
Sentence
/ phrase above can be ambiguous. Meaning
can be:
1. Twenty / thousands =
twenty bills in the thousands.
2. Twenty thousand = sata
twenty-thousand-dollar bills.
To avoid any confusion or
misinterpretation, the sentence should be equipped with a hyphen (-).
Example
with the addition of a hyphen then becomes:
He issued a twenty-thousand
or she spend twenty thousand.
In order to more clearly
examine the following ambiguous sentence below!
Sentence : red car is new neighbor.
In the
above sentence pose a double meaning to the phrase "car new
neighbor", is as follows.
1. Car / new = new neighbor is a neighbor.
2. Car neighbor / new = new
is the car.
To avoid double meaning,
the sentence above could be changed to: Cars - new neighbors are red or Car
neighbors - the new red.
Ambiguity in addition
occurs in the sentence may also occur between sentences.
