Ambiguous Pronoun

Jazzed
Thu, 14 Nov 2013 15:55:28 +0000

Just a guy with input and without a grammatical rule to clear things up.

Within sentences I feel like ambiguity isn’t really a big deal. Usually SAT ambiguity focuses on an ambiguous pronoun across a series of sentences.

It’s not a great sentence but I don’t see anything grammatically (in SAT terms) wrong with “I served lemonade to the guests in pink cups.” Actually I feel like saying “I served lemonade in pink cups to the guests” is a worse sentence because it lacks fluidity and almost feels like it needs commas around “in pink cups” to set it apart. It’s probably not what you want to hear, but English is far from a perfect language and sometimes you have to settle and use your intuition.