All rights reserved. W ords, as we know, often have more than one meaning, and that is the classic instance of ambiguity.
Ambiguity has another sense, however.
Occasionally, phrases and clauses create ambiguity because their structures may be interpreted in more than one way, leading to different meanings for the sentence as a whole. I saw her duck . I saw her duck . Subordinate Clause A t the clause rank, ambiguity arises when clause constituents can be interpreted as having two or more functions. They found me a good worker , where the functions of the last two constituents can vary, creating two different meanings.