Consider the following sentence (from The New York Times, July 28, 2008):
Banks struggling to recover from multibillion-dollar loans on real estate are curtailing loans to American businesses, depriving even healthy companies of money for expansion and hiring.
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Which of the words in this sentence are lexically ambiguous?
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Find two cases of syntactic ambiguity in this sentence (there are more than two.)
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Give an instance of metaphor in this sentence.
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Can you find semantic ambiguity?
 
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