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28 июня 2017
Вопрос про Английский (британский вариант)
Visiting relatives can be boring.
Where is the ambiguity?
Visiting relatives can be boring.
Where is the ambiguity?
Where is the ambiguity?
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28 июня 2017
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- Английский (британский вариант)
"Visiting relatives" can mean either relatives who are visiting you, or relatives whom you are visiting. This is ambiguous because from the sentence there is no way to know which meaning is intended.
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