The Fact That a "Bat" Could Be a Flying Mammal

question 39

Multiple Choice

The fact that a "bat" could be a flying mammal or a necessary tool to play baseball is an example of

• A) syntactic ambiguity.
• B) lexical ambiguity.
• C) the lack of proper rules in the English language
• D) pragmatics.

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