2). Use an example from everyday life: Describe a vague sentence or ambiguous sentence you have heard recently. Where did you hear this sentence? An advertisement? Was it a conversation with a friend? What qualified the sentence as vague or ambiguous?
A vague or ambiguous sentence is one that can be interpreted in more ways than one and is lacking detail, unless the sentence is made more clear.
Vague Sentence: The other night my boyfriend and his friend were playing video games and I was in the other room. While I was laying in bed I heard my boyfriend say "you can tap it, and you stomp like crazy". Once I heard this vague sentence I came out to the living room and asked what he was talking about. My boyfriend was talking about a button on the video game controller his friend could press to make the character in the video game stomp his foot on the ground to kill a zombie. This sentence was a vague one because if I had not gotten any clarification on what my boyfriend was talking about, I would not have known that he was talking to his friend about a button for video game purposes. The sentence also qualified as being vague because there were not specific details about where or what his friend should tap to make an action happen. If no clarification was provided I could have thought that my boyfriend was referring to drugs in the sense of how drugs are used (not saying that he uses drugs) or something else completely off topic to video games. Therefore the sentence not only lacked clarification, but also details.
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