Navitasan Posted 13 years ago
Grammar
Do not know if one is
1-A bus with twelve passengers had an accident. We are trying to contact the bus. We don't know if one of the passengers is alive.
Can't this have two different meanings:
a-We don't know if any of the passengers are alive.
b-We do not know if a specific passenger is alive. We are sure that the eleven others are alive, We have doubts about one of them.
Gratefully,
Navi.
Can't this have two different meanings:
a-We don't know if any of the passengers are alive.
b-We do not know if a specific passenger is alive. We are sure that the eleven others are alive, We have doubts about one of them.
Gratefully,
Navi.
Top answer
The sentence is unnatural and unclear.
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