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A. This sentence has two different meanings: "A man found out that his wife was eating with the help of a drone." What are the two different meanings? - express them in two different sentences. NOTE: the ambiguity is syntactic or grammatical; the sentence exhibits an amphiboly. Hence this is not one of the possible answers: "A male human being ...." The ambiguity is not erased by using synonyms. Each answer below (A#1 and A#2) must be a complete and grammatically correct sentence.
A#1.
A#2.
B. A well-known basketball player was interviewed by the press after an important playoff game, which his team lost. During the post-game interview, the player said: "They just played better than us. What do you want me to say?" Think about the meaning of "What do you want me to say"? (B#1) Provide one ordinary and common meaning of that question, and give the question an answer (if it has one). Then (B#2) provide a different kind of meaning to that question (a more literal meaning), and provide the answer that would be given to this literal question by (and this part is crucial) a pedantic English composition teacher.
B#1.
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C. Think about a whole item and its parts. Employing this whole and the parts of this whole, create a passage which exhibits a composition fallacy (C-Comp), and then create a passage which exhibits a division fallacy (C-Div), using the same whole/parts in each fallacy.
C-Comp.
C-Div.
D. (D-V) Is this a valid argument? Why or why not? (D-S) Is it sound? Why or why not?
Premise 1: In this photograph of the family, Jamie is to the right. Premise 2: Any person that is to the right is politically closer to Pence than to Sanders. Hence, conclusion: Jamie is politically closer to Pence than to Sanders.
D-V.
D-S.
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