Incorrect Punctuation, As A Cause Of Ambiguity And Misunderstanding In Written Communication

Ambiguity is a linguistic phenomenon in which more than one meaning, or deep structure, may be represented by the same expression, or surface structure; the same word or similar sounding words for example can have multiple meaning. It arises from different sources; phonology, syntax and punctuation. In this task, ambiguity is the preoccupation of this task. It is a point where two sentence overlap with respect to their syntactic category. CHAPTER ONE 1.0       INTRODUCTION Punctuation is one of the major aspects that contribute to meaning of any written discourse. This implies that correc…