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

Sorry, this is not the correct answer.

In this example, the preposition ''at'' is used as the head of the location modifier ''at the party''.

In other examples, the prepositions ''at'' can be responsible for ambiguities. The sentence ''Pat was laughing at the party'', is ambiguous. The preposition ''at'', here, could either be the head of a location modifier, as in our example above, or the head of a complement PP ''at the party''. In this second reading ''at the party'' is the theme of the laughing, not the location of the laughing.

Try another solution for our example. You can also turn to the page with the [[Types of ambiguity|explanations]] for more details.

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