Question

Give the possible interpretations of the following ambiguous sentence:

“I could not sleep because of the cricket"

Answer 1

There could be multiple interpretations to the given sentence like as follows :

1. The conveyor might not be able to sleep because of some interesting match that he or she might be watching on tv.

2. There might be a situation that kids on conveyor's neighborhood be creating noise while playing cricket and therefore he or she might not be able to sleep.