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Lexical ambiguity or syntactically ambiguous?

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Reply Sat 24 Jul, 2004 12:19 pm
a) John went to the bank.

b) Put the box on the table in the kitchen.

Each appears to make a plain statement. May I ask, which is which and why?
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Craven de Kere
 
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Reply Sat 24 Jul, 2004 02:39 pm
B has no subject to the imperative verb.
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Letty
 
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Reply Sat 24 Jul, 2004 02:44 pm
Craven is correct, tryagain. The understood subject is always "you" in that type structure; however, I would say "Put the box on the table that is in the kitchen." That would clarify the modifiers a wee bit.
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