So I love the song "I want to love you madly" by Cake... but my grammar class has made me so sensitive to sentence structure and ambiguity haha!
You wouldn't think about the sentence "I want to love you madly" as being ambiguous (having two meanings)... but it is. How you ask?
Because of the adverb "madly." You don't know which verb it is modifying!! Is he saying he "wants madly to love you" or that he "wants to love you madly." We'll never know.
Welcome to the mind of a linguistics student. haha!
-Alisyn =)
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