Sentence above clearly contains homonym that is in the word fall. The word fall has two interpretations, there are: an act of
accidentally or drop to the ground or autumn. The writer tries to make that sentence unambiguous as follows:
− You could hurt yourself in an accident that could make you fall into the ground, and then never ride at all.
− You could hurt yourself in autumn, and then never ride at all. 4
Back then, students didn’t have notebooks. backpack 4: 67 That sentence clearly contains lexical ambiguity that is in the
word notebooks. The word notebooks can interpret in two ways, there are: book or kind of laptop. The writer tries to make that sentence
unambiguous as follows: − Back then, students didn’t have a small laptop.
− Back then, students didn’t have sheet of paper or known as books.
b. Truth conditional section
Truth-conditional section is choosing between two situations representing alternative meaning of sentence. It uses stories to illustrate
or contradict truth claims Pool, 2007: 1. 1
They are friendly and fun to play with. backpack 4: 5 From the ambiguous sentence above, the writer tries to
unambiguated it by using truth conditional section as follows:
− Ikey and Mickey is so friendly animals I ever had. I always having fun if I play with them.
− Ikey and Mickey is a friendly pets to play with and also fun animals too.
2 She is very friendly and nice. backpack 4: 8
That sentence is ambiguous in surface structure level. The writer gives the unambiguous sentences using truth conditional section as
follows: − She is very friendly, she always asks the other people first and
also her attitude is very nice too. − She is very friendly because she always helps her friends. Her
performance is so nice. 3
It’s made with rice and chicken backpack 4:26 That sentence is ambiguous sentence. The writer gives the
unambiguous sentences using truth conditional section as follows: − That food is made with rice mixed with cube chicken.
− That food is only made from rice and it can eat with chicken.
c. Adding Preposition
The addition of preposition helps interpreting the meaning of ambiguous word or phrase or sentence. A substantial amount of work
has been devoted to disambiguating prepositional attachment, words, and names. Preposition sense disambiguation PSD has many potential
uses. Hovy and Tratz, 2010: 454.
1 Families watch fireworks and eat small round dumplings.
backpack 4: 77 Sentence above is an instance of structural ambiguity. It is
ambiguous because it has more than one sentence construction. The writer presents the unambiguous sentences as follows:
Families watch fireworks and eat small of round dumplings. 2
Ritual rain dances backpack 4: 104 Sentence above is an instance of structural ambiguity. It is
ambiguous because it has more than one sentence construction. The writer presents the unambiguous sentence as follow:
Ritual of rain dances
d. Moving sentence construction
