Determine the type of ambiguity

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Each of the following sentences is ambiguous.

  1. Determine the type of the ambiguity and
  2. determine which element in the sentence causes the ambiguity.

Choose the right option.


1 (1) Pat didn't know a guest at the party.

Determine the type of the ambiguity

lexical
structural
scope
collective-distributive

2 Determine which element in the sentence causes the ambiguity.

the word know
the negation and the indefinite
the preposition at


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