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Una cosa interesante en la lingüística es la ambigüedad de unas oraciones. Hay varias oraciones que tienen diferentes significados dependiendo en como se perciben. Por ejemplo, “Mi hermano vio a un niño con un telescopio” puede significar que hay un niño con un telescopio o su hermano puede ver el niño usando su telescopio. Este sitio web tiene ejemplos de oraciones ambiguas.

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I came across this headline in the Wall Street Journal:

Republicans Grill IRS Chief Over Lost Emails

This type of sentence has great possibilities because of its two different interpretations:

1. Republicans harshly question the chief about the emails

2. Republicans cook the chief using email as the fuel

It's a perfect tool to: demonstrate careful reading, showcase the need for editing, and encourage creativity and divergent thinking.

Even More Meanings

The ambiguous headline took me back to my college days when a professor shared this sentence:

I saw a man on a hill with a telescope.

It seems like a simple statement until you begin to unpack the many alternate meanings:

There's a man on a hill, and I'm watching him with my telescope.

There's a man on a hill, who I'm seeing, and he has a telescope.

There's a man, and he's on a hill that also has a telescope on it.

I'm on a hill, and I saw a man using a telescope.

There's a man on a hill, and I'm sawing him with a telescope.

See how many meanings your students can catch!

More Examples

Here are some other ambiguous sentences (more at this Wikipedia page):

We saw her duck.

1. We looked at a duck that belonged to her.

2. We looked at her quickly squat down to avoid something.

3. We use a saw to cut her duck.

He fed her cat food.

1. He fed a woman's cat some food.

2. He fed a woman some food that was intended for cats.

3. He somehow encouraged some cat food to eat something.

Look at the dog with one eye.

1. Look at the dog using only one of your eyes.

2. Look at the dog that only has one eye.

3. Updated (via Alice, age 7): Perhaps the dog has found an eye somewhere, and we're looking at the dog.

I could definitely see these as a daily challenge to uncover as many meanings as possible. And illustrations would be wonderful!

Include A Classic
Update 10/27/2015: Replaced the broken YouTube video
I'm always on the lookout for a way to connect great ideas from the past to a typical lesson. Groucho Marx is a king of these linguistic jokes, with his most famous being this quick quip about an elephant:

Your kids may have seen "that guy" before, but probably haven't experienced the Marx Brothers humor in action, which is still remarkably funny.

Challenging Parts of Speech

These sentences are also a great connection to wordplay, puns, and parts of speech. They can be really unusual examples that push students to truly understand the material. Your kids can try to identify parts of speech in sentences with multiple uses of a single word, with the ultimate example being:

Will Will will the will to Will?

Create Your Own

Of course, there will be a group of students who want to create their own cleverly ambiguous sentences. Have them look closely at the patterns in the examples you give. The key is to build the sentences around homographs and homonyms, words that look the same but have different meanings.

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I came across this headline in the Wall Street Journal : Republicans Grill IRS Chief Over Lost Emails This type of sentence has great possibilities because of its two different interpretations: Republicans harshly question the chief about the emails Republicans cook the chief using email as the fuel It's a perfect tool to: demonstrate careful reading, showcase the need for editing, and encourage creativity and divergent thinking.

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Oraciones predicativas son las que están formadas por un sujeto y un predicado (verbo) . Este video tiene información sobre las oraciones predicativas. Específicamente, contiene hechos de las oraciones transitivas e intransitivas, que son algunos tipos de oraciones predicativas. Hay un énfasis en identificar el núcleo, que es la palabra que determina las propiedades sintácticas.

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Las oraciones predicativas son aquellas que están formadas por un sujeto y un predicado verbal. El núcleo de dicho predicado verbal es un verbo NO copulativo (ser, estar, parecer...). Estas verbos predicativos se distinguen de los copulativos en que estos últimos no tiene significados por sí mismos mientras que los predicativos sí poseen significado pleno.

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Este enlace tiene muchos juegos para practicar con los conceptos de sintaxis. En el primero, tiene que separar el sujeto del predicado. Después, hay actividades que involucran los conceptos del sujeto y núcleo de las oraciones. El sujeto es la persona o cosa que realiza la acción y el núcleo es más especifico.

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sentido completo,independencia sintáctica y termina en pausa opunto.

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Hay varias maneras de formar y categorizar las oraciones en español. Puede organizarlas en tres grupos principales por el significado - imperativa, exclamativa, e interrogativa. Cada uno representa una estructura diferente. Sin embargo, existe una manera de clasificar las oraciones por el verbo, como copulativa, transitiva, intransitiva, y más. Es difícil de entenderlas sin ejemplos entonces este enlace tiene definiciones e ejemplos de cada clasificación de las oraciones.

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Gramático y la Aventura de la Oración:

El Rey llora desconsolado. El señor de la Oscuridad ha raptado a su hija, la princesa. Nuestro protagonista, Gramático, soldado de élite, caballero de honor y fiel servidor de su Rey, jura por su vida encontrar sana y salva a la princesa.

Prueba 1: debes encontrar la Oración Transitiva entre las 3 opciones:

Esquema General de las Oraciones:

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Gramático y la Aventura de la Oración: El Rey llora desconsolado. El señor de la Oscuridad ha raptado a su hija, la princesa. Nuestro protagonista, Gramático, soldado de élite, caballero de honor y fiel servidor de su Rey, jura por su vida encontrar sana y salva a la princesa.