Based on the relevant questionnaire,it also investigates the acceptability of the ambiguous quantified sentences in Mandarin Chinese.

There are totally three kinds of ambiguity,namely phonological,lexical and syntactic ambiguity.

Garden path sentences are caused either by lexical ambiguity or syntactic ambiguity.

The paper attempts to analyze how syntactic ambiguity arises by employing Functional Grammar s metafunctional theory and the concept of rank.

Analysis of Causes of English Ambiguous Sentences and Corresponding Solutions

This paper, through the analysis of the cause of ambiguity, means to point out the different effects of ambiguous sentences caused by breaking the cooperative principle either on purpose or by chance, which can help us understand and appreciate the wise and humorous effect of the ambiguous sentence caused by breaking the cooperative principle on purpose.

This article mainly expounds with examples the reasons causing lexical and syntactic ambiguities, and on this basis, puts forward some methods of eliminating ambiguous sentences in English.

Due to the abundance of English vocabulary and the particularity of sentence structure, ambiguity always exist in English,which hinders the smooth communication between the signal sender and its receiver.

Due to the abundance of vocabulary and the particularity of sentence structure, ambiguity always exists in human languages, which hinders the smooth communication between the signal sender and its receiver, and even causes misunderstandings.