But in these examples of ambiguity, the first may be remedied by a change of case, the second by separating 1 the words or altering their position, the third by some addition.1
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It is also often doubtful to which of two antecedents
a phrase is to be referred. Hence we get such
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controversial themes as, “My heir shall be bound to
give my wife a hundred pounds of silver according
to choice,” where it is left uncertain which of the
two is to make the choice.
1 See § 11.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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