Sunday, November 8, 2009

ambiguous modifiers

-happens when the modifier can be treated as an adjectival or an adverbial.

If it is an adverbial, it can't modify a noun phrase.

Only I did this (only as an adjectivial modifyin I"
I only did this (only as an adj, I; only as an adverb, did)


Prepositional phrases: adj or adv.

V + PP1 + PP2 (ambiguous)

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