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Well, in grammar, when a pronoun is ambiguous, that means that the pronoun could be referring to more than one thing. For example, look at this sentence:
He opened the cans, pealed off the labels, and threw them away.
In this sentence, 'them' is our pronoun. 'Them' could be talking about the cans or the labels; we just don't know. When a pronoun has two possible antecedents (a noun the pronoun is referring to) then the pronoun is said to have an ambiguous meaning. Hope this helps!
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How do you write a sentence using the word ambiguity?
This old text is full of ambiguity, everyone interprets it in a different way.
Use ambiguity in a sentence?
Ambiguity is a word used to describe an uncertainty of something. A good sentence would be, there seems to be no ambiguity in this part of the textbook.
What is normative ambiguity?
An inability to distiguish between behaviors determined to be proper or improper by a society. Normativity refers to behaviors that are acceptable for a society, such as norms. Ambiguity refers to vagueness or an inability to discern.
What is a synonym for ambiguity?
vagueness, doubt, uncertainty, obscurity, equivocation, dubiousness
What is communication ambiguity?
Communication ambiguity is a barrier to the semantics in any languages where homophones or even words and phrases may same be different in their meaning but sound the sameeg: ice cream and I screamThe students are revolting.
