Ambiguous

[æmˈbɪɡjuəs]

Today we are going to learn about the word ambiguous.

It is an interesting word, but a little hard to understand even as a native. So listen carefully.

A- M-B-I-G-U-O-U-S. Ambiguous.[æmˈbɪɡjuəs]

Ambiguous means having more than one possible meaning, which causes confusion.

The best way to explain this word is to show you some examples.

Here, let us look at some example sentence:

🤔He fed her cat food.

a) Alex fed a woman actual cat food.

b) Alex fed a woman's cat some cat food.

The sentence again is: He fed her cat food.

Answer: We don't know just by looking at the sentence, because the sentence is ambiguous.

Both of these sentences are confusing and are not very clear. The sentence is ambiguous.

They mean more than one thing, and we don't know how to read them very well, even as a native speaker. I don't know.

So when speaking and writing in English it is best to be clear when you are speaking and writing. So you don't sound ambiguous.