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Default Re: What is "ambiguous " mean in syntax?

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Originally Posted by aroma View Post
please help me

Sorry Aroma, but you've used the words yourself - I guess that's why nobody has responded. The examples given are syntactically ambiguous.

Syntactically - relating to the way words are put together in meaningful ways
Ambiguous - having two or more possible meanings

The reason people specify that a certain kind of ambiguity is syntactical is that there are other sorts of ambiguity.

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