In the days when cats needed to be fed from an adult, a cat’s teeth and stomach are often the only places to get food for a cat. You could say that the phrase “marcie gave her cat food” is ambiguous because the context is ambiguous. Perhaps it could be interpreted to mean that marcie gave her cat food in front of her and that marcie said she was going to give her cat food after her.
this is the second post of this thread. Now, what if we could take a cat’s food and give them something else a cat would be interested in. Like a meal from a cat.
“Marci gave her cat food” is a sentence which is syntactically ambiguous. It contains a conjunction and a conjunctive adverbial phrase and a coordinating conjunction.
marcie gave her cat food is a sentence that can be understood as “The cat ate marcie’s cat food”. Syntactically, it’s ambiguous, because it’s unclear what the cat ate or whether it ate the cat food. It also can’t be determined from the context whether marcie is an object or a subject, which is a syntactic error. The correct sentence is “The cat gave its food to marcie.
My opinion, my story, my opinion, is: you are not a cat owner. You are a cat. You should never, ever, ever give your cat food. Cats are carnivores and carnivores are not trustworthy. No matter how much you love your cat, they will not always eat what you give them.
The phrase “marcie gave her cat food” is used to describe the act of handing over food, usually to someone else, to a pet. The word “give” is used to emphasize the act of giving, not the right to do so. The sentence “Marcie gave her cat food” is a variation of the phrase “Marcie gave her food.
The sentence “marcie gave her cat food” is a sentence in which “given” is the subject of the sentence. The sentence is syntactically ambiguous due to the subject being preceded by “s” as well as “m” and “c” because the sentence is in the present perfect tense. The sentence is also open to interpretation as to how the cat food was given as it could be either oral or a bottle.
It’s not the only one in the dictionary. In the sense of the word “give”, it’s syntactic ambiguity. The sentence, “Marcella gave her cat food to feed him”, is arguably ambiguous, but by the context of the sentence, Marcella is not giving her cat any food, she is giving him his food, and that is what he is going to eat.
You may or may not know this story, but “marcie gave her cat food” is a phrase used quite often in the US and it is typically used to thank someone for something. “Marci” is the name of the cat. She was the cat’s owner in this story.