ExCh1 Ambiguity 1a-b

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Example sentence: Pat didn't know a guest at the party.

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You might argue that the preposition phrase at the party could attach to the noun guest, to the verb phrase know a guest, or to the entire sentence. In each case, the truth conditions of the sentence are the same.

There is, however, another type of ambiguity in the sentence which leads to readings with distinct truth conditions. Try to find this ambiguity.

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