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Words may
be separated by a breathing space or pause. We
may, for instance, say statuam, and then, after a
slight pause, add auream hastam, or the pause may
come between statuam auream and haslam. The
addition referred to above would take the form quod
elegerit ipse, where ipse will show that the reference
to the heir, or quod elegerit ipsa, making the reference
to the wife. In cases where ambiguity is caused
by the addition of a word, the difficulty may be
eliminated by the removal of a word, as in the
sentence nos flentes illos deprehendimus.1
1 Does this mean we found them weeping, or we found them weeping for us? The ambiguity is eliminated by the removal of nos.
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