To all english gurus out there 😎

[ODIN]

"A mother beats up her daughter because she was drunk"

WHO WAS DRUNK?

[Abby.83]

@ragnar the daughter because the mother is doing the action and the word because tells the reason why she is doing the action (my opinion I could be wrong)

[Savage368]

@ragnar Obviously in the sentence it has ambiguity in it, meaning it can be interpreted in more than one way, which makes ambiguous expressions hard to figure it out.

The question asked, "who was drunk?", the truth is you can't really precisely tell who was drunk because the sentence is assigned with more than one interpretation. The ambiguity of the sentence has the word "she" which it's a lexical item that causes the sentence to be ambiguous in the first place. So, whoever wrote this sentence ( I presume it's you @RAGNAR), assigned the two antecedents which is the mother and the daughter, to the lexical item, "she", without clearly telling which of the two anteceddents is "she", which is why it makes it difficult to precise the interpretation to the sentence.

Some people would say that it was the mother who was drunk, others would say that it was the daughter who was drunk. Everyone will have different opinions about it because the sentence obviously doesn't clarify who is drunk. It could be either the mother or the daughter.

Ambiguous sentences are the worse, just makes it a whole lot confusing really

......just saying

[FemaleHellbent]

@ragnar when your at a party and your friend say get more beer...

[Unknown4123]

@ragnar The person who wrote this sentence was drunk lmao
This is an ambiguous sentence, nothing is precise.

[Azriel]

@ragnar

SHE

P.S. One word is enough for a wise man.
P.P.S.

[sup]

@RAGNAR Dont tell me you were drunk when you posted this.

[KorgLife17]

@abby-83 said in To all english gurus out there :

@ragnar the daughter because the mother is doing the action and the word because tells the reason why she is doing the action (my opinion I could be wrong)

No I'm pretty sure that's grammatically correct but I'm not certified or anything.

[Mak 2.0]

@ragnar where do ya get these kinda ques bro .....nice ques and i hope so mother was drunk coz most of them would reply daughter was drunk....haha i wish to be unique ......and it should have been a poll i hope so with mother and daughter as options and spoiler as (clue~The Female was Drunk )........

[NoMoreBucky]

Well done @RAGNAR bro. Now I want to see who will give correct explanation of this. Everyone who point out English grammatical error please solve this also. I want to pass this question to @strangerdanger and @DamnCuteGuy who are so called English Gurus.

[FemaleHellbent]

@ragnar

[Rhehdhushshddhhd]

With this phrasing, the daughter was drunk. If it were the mother, the phrasing would be: “Because she was drunk, the mother beat her daughter.”

[Faaip de oiad]

The mother was drunk

[sup]

To all the people who did research on this just to be called the "English guru":
Hats off but get well soon.

[Zack Williamson]

@RAGNAR The answer is hidden in the question itself- THE DAUGHTER

[ODIN]

@femalehellbent lmao

[ODIN]

@makiboy thanks bruvv

[ODIN]

@sup nooppe , i wasnt

[NutellaBigGoat]

@ragnar SHE was drunk.

[ODIN]

@nutellabiggoat who thou?
she - mother

OR

she - daughter