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Old 05-Mar-2008, 17:10
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Default Re: Tree diagram for abiguous sentences

I don't really know if this will help because the only ambiguity I could find lies in its elliptical construction

thus you could either take

"They found him a good secretary"

in the sense of "They found a good secretary for him "
or
implying that "They found him to be a good secretary"
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