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What is true about the following sentence? The defendant examined by the lawyer turned out to be unreliable..
 
  a. Eye movements show that readers speed up on the first part of this sentence.
  b. This is an example of how readers' knowledge of frequency differences can enhance sentence recognition.
  c. Readers' knowledge of inanimate and animate nouns influences comprehension of this sentence.
  d. This is an example of an ambiguous sentence.

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Which of the following is an example of underlying ambiguity?
 
  a. Flying planes is dangerous. c. Flying planes can be dangerous.
  b. Flying planes are dangerous. d. They are flying planes.



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