Listed above are perfect examples of ambiguity. Ambiguity can be defined as ‘the presence of two or more possible meanings in any passage’. Ambiguous sentences lack clarity and lead to confusion or ...

For example, the following sentence lends itself to two possible interpretations: (1) Old men and women left the theater. What does “old” modify in this sentence? “Men” or “men and women”? In other ...

In the first part of the series on “Understanding the conventions of academic writing”, I discussed these two common error patterns: i) Missing comma after ...