A study by a pair of University of Chicago psychologists has found that speakers systematically overestimate their ability to convey what they mean, even when they know that what they say is ambiguous ...

Ambiguity simply means lack of clarity in construction - written or spoken. This occurs when there are two or more meanings in a passage. Ambiguity is of two basic types: Syntactic Ambiguity and ...

For example, the following sentence lends itself to two possible interpretations: (1) Old men and women left the theater. What does “old” modify in this sentence? “Men” or “men and women”? In other ...

Listed above are perfect examples of ambiguity. Ambiguity can be defined as ‘the presence of two or more possible meanings in any passage’. Ambiguous sentences lack clarity and lead to confusion or ...