How to analyze ambiguous sentences

An ambiguous sentence is a sentence that can produce two or more possible sentences in terms of understanding. In other words, it is a sentence that can be understood this way or that. To analyze an ambiguous sentence, you must first understand the reasons for the ambiguous sentence. There are roughly two reasons for ambiguous sentences. One is the ambiguity caused by polysemy, and the other is the ambiguity caused by different pause combinations in the sentence structure. Many education experts believe that ambiguous sentences mainly include phonetic ambiguity, lexical ambiguity, and grammatical ambiguity. Types.

1. Phonetic ambiguity. The phonetic features that can lead to ambiguity mainly include stress, pause, tone, mood and intonation. Differences in the light and stress of the sentence, pause points, intonation, etc. can make the meaning of the sentence different. Changes, so candidates must not fall into misunderstandings when using Chinese.

For example: choose sentences without ambiguity ().

A.

Objection There are many people in your march B.

We plan to invite famous scholars and educators to our school to give reports

C.A

Country B’s The attack is well prepared D.

A student’s performance does not reflect their quality. Analysis: This question mainly examines the ambiguity caused by the difference in pauses. Item A “People who oppose your / march / "Many" and "There are many people who oppose /your march/", the difference in pauses creates two meanings; It is unclear whether "famous" in item B is used to modify "scholar" or "educator" or both. It is clear; item C, "Country A has been prepared for the attack against Country B" and "Country A has been prepared for the attack against Country B", can be understood in two ways. Only item D is unambiguous. Therefore, choose D.

2. Vocabulary ambiguity Vocabulary ambiguity is mostly caused by improper use of polysemy words or polysemy phrases. If a word in a sentence is polysemy, then the sentence may become a polysemy sentence.

For example: Please choose the ambiguous sentence ().

A.

In the eyes of most people, he has nothing B.

When he went to Xi'an, he bought three gifts and came back C.

Success is winning the entire war, not winning every war D.

His uncle used to be a mathematics teacher in a good middle school in Shanghai

Analysis: "Original" has two meanings, it can mean "before" and "so it is", then the sentence in item D It can be understood as "his uncle used to be a teacher in Shanghai" or "suddenly learned that his uncle was a teacher in Shanghai". Therefore, D.

3. Grammatical ambiguity Grammatical ambiguity is mainly manifested in The following three aspects: (1) The reference of attributive modifications is unclear. The same phrase or the same sentence has different divisions in the grammatical structure, and pointing to different modifying components will cause ambiguity.

(2 ) Ambiguity in subject-predicate-object collocation. The same language form may have multiple internal structural relationships, and different institutional relationships have different meanings.

(3) Ambiguity caused by unclear reference. For example The "joke" in "He has endless jokes" is both about "him" and can also be understood as being told by "him".

For example: Select sentences without ambiguity ().

A.

No one believed what he said B.

Xiao Wang and I have already agreed to go play ball after class C.

The disciple of the professor who attended the meeting finally gave a wonderful speech D.

We need people who believe in ourselves Analysis: The object of belief in item A may be "his words" or "his words" "behavior or other", "word" is used as a spoken word here; it is unclear whether the last person attending the meeting in item C was the professor or his disciple; it is not clear whether the person who believes in item D is us, or refers to personal self-confidence; item B actually The expression is also unclear. "和" can be understood as both "and" and "xiang". In comparison, item B is correct. So choose B.