Avoiding Ambiguity by using Punctuation ENGLISH GRAMMAR TASK 1: Explain what Ambiguous means. Ambiguous means TASK 2:
Question:
Avoiding Ambiguity by using Punctuation
ENGLISH GRAMMAR
TASK 1: Explain what Ambiguous means. Ambiguous means
TASK 2: Explain why a writer might be Ambiguous on purpose.
TASK 3: Write these sentences and add punctuation where you feel is most appropriate so that the sentence is NO LONGER ambiguous.
Example:
We ate chocolate cake and raspberries – No punctuation.
We ate: chocolate, cake and raspberries – semi-colon added to introduce a list and a comma in-between chocolate and cake to show they are separate foods.
She liked Be who played drums better than Jim.
The old lady collected all sorts of things: silver paper, hats felt flowers and buttons.
Let’s eat Grandpa.
Stop clubbing baby seals.
The panda eats shoots and leaves.
TASK 4: Rewrite the sentences with the punctuation changed and explain HOW this changes the meaning of the sentence.