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Hello! I have a doubt. This sentece "They found him a good secretary" is ambiguous and I need to analyze it into two different ways. Could you please help me? Thank you
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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 "
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implying that "They found him to be a good secretary"
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Yes, but how can we analyze these sentences?
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