2). Use an example from everyday life: Describe a vague sentence or ambiguous sentence you have heard recently. Where did you hear this sentence? An advertisement? Was it a conversation with a friend? What qualified the sentence as vague or ambiguous?
Yesterday, my friend and I were shopping at the store Forever 21. After we had left, she told me of how she wished she had bought a necklace she saw. I started to think of how her birthday is coming up soon so maybe I could surprise her with it. When I asked her what it looked like, she replied, "It was black and kind of big." This description of the necklace gave me no information on which necklace she wanted. It could have been the black necklace they had with beads or the black necklace they had with chains. Her sentence was far too vague to help me. Because there are a large variety of necklaces at the Forever 21 store, I could have interpreted her description to be a number of different necklaces. Because of her vagueness, I guess I'll have to think of something different to get her!
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I agree with you. The example you used is a perfect example of a sentence being far too vague. The fact that she only gave two descriptions, saying it was black and kind of big, left you still wondering which necklace she was even talking about. And since Forever21 is one of my favorite stores to shop at, I know that it would almost be impossible to figure out what necklace your friend wanted since there is always so many different necklaces in there. At least you were able to narrow it down to just being possibly two different ones.
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