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Thanks very much guys, am now feeling slightly mollified. I did explain that context helps clarify ambiguity....and also said that I intuitively understood the subject of wandering to be the animals in sentence b), which I guess equates to Duncan's "building up a tolerance for amiguity". I have howe...

A student asked me the following... a)They ruled the country using a policy called apartheid. b)They photographed animals wandering around. She understood that in sentence a) that "using" referred to "they", but in sentence b) was unclear as to whether "wandering" referred to "they" or "animals. I t...