RE: ambiugous sentences

["Andrew Dugas" <dugas -at- intalio -dot- com>]

Maybe a dog run, but a horse run?

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> Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 9:42 AM
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> <snip>
> I don't see ambiguity in "The horse run past the barn fell."
> 
> The horse (that was run past the barn) fell.
> <snip>
> 
> I do see this as being ambiguous, as I read it to mean:
> 
> The horse run (located past the barn) fell. In other words, a 
> structure used
> to exercise horses, has fallen.
> 
> Isis Erb
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