Avoiding Ambiguity by using Punctuation 

                                                                                     ENGLISH GRAMMAR

TASK 1: Explain what Ambiguous means. Ambiguous means   

TASK 2: Explain why a writer might be Ambiguous on purpose.  

TASK 3: Write these sentences and add punctuation where you feel is most appropriate so that the sentence is NO LONGER ambiguous. 

Example: 

We ate chocolate cake and raspberries – No punctuation. 

We ate:  chocolate, cake and raspberries – semi-colon added to introduce a list and a comma in-between chocolate and cake to show they are separate foods. 

1. She  liked  Be who  played  drums  better  than  Jim. 

 

2. The  old  lady  collected  all  sorts  of  things:  silver  paper, hats  felt  flowers  and  buttons. 

 

3. Let’s  eat  Grandpa. 

 

4. Stop  clubbing  baby  seals. 

 

5. The panda eats shoots and leaves. 

 

TASK 4: Rewrite the sentences with the punctuation changed and explain HOW this changes the meaning of the sentence.