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ExplicitContent:
Simple -The daughter was the one drunk.

In the sentence it says, 'beat her daughter because she was drunk' .

"because" serves as a conjunction between "daughter" which is a noun following over with the word "she which is an adverb all referring to the daughter..

So the person drunk was the daughter.

"she" is not an adverb please. It's a pronoun.

okonja:
The mother is drunk because a mother in her right sense would not beat her daughter for no reason.

Bros, r u Nigerian?

it is either the mother was drunk or the daughter got beaten by the mother because she was drunk, in English it is called ambiguity

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A mother beat up her daughter because she was drunk ....replace the phrase 'she was drunk' with an adjectival noun phrase 'of something', the new sentence becomes

"A mother beat up her daughter because of something" ....what is that 'something' ==> Getting drunk which qualifies the reason behind her daughter getting a beating ....her daughter was drunk

igraman:
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it has generated a lot of arguments here.

This is ambiguity in action and contrary to what some have said, the sentence is grammatically correct but semantically ambiguous.

The pronoun, "she" can semantically refer either to the mother or the daughter and that's why one of the best ways to disambiguate a sentence is by rephrasing the whole sentence or by repeating a part of the sentence.

Using repetition method, the sentence would be,

The mother beat her daughter because the daughter was drunk.

Or

The mother beat her daughter because the mother was drunk.

Its very obvoius that this is ambiguous statement with a dangling modifier,so the person drunk here is not certain, its like saying "SLOW DOWN MEN AT WORK" who suppose to slow down,motorist or men at work?

HeyCorleone:
Obviously it's the mother.

"a woman beat her daughter because she was drunk". Drunk qualifies the woman.

The daughter.

molesky:
Its very obvoius that this is ambiguous statement with a dangling modifier,so the person drunk here is not certain, its like saying "SLOW DOWN MEN AT WORK" who suppose to slow down,motorist or men at work?

It's not ambiguous. Use a cause and effect to determine the answer.

Who was beaten? The daughter
Why was she beaten? Because she was drunk

The "because" there already tells us why the action took place. The daughter is on the receiving end. Slow down men at work doesn't fit with this. The "because" changes the whole thing

One of the many reason i don't like english

The person who constructed the sentence has already failed the proficiency test.

A proficiently constructed sentence is typically devoid of ambiguities which fail to effectively communicate the message which the writer put forth.

I see no sense in it when you beat a drunk person. Wait till the drunkness is over the person.

Na who drunk Sabi inself.

had it been it says "THE" mother.. it means the daughter is drunk but it says "A" mother, it is still talking about the mother.. so the mother is drunk.

Samirana360:
d two both of them join together d mother and the daughter

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buh its d mother dats drunk coz u can't beat ur daughter becoz she(ur daughter) is drunk

bad niga spotted

sway112:
All of them are drunk...
The mother ooo
The daughter 000
The bar man* ooo
Even Okada man that dropped the drunkard
All of them... Drunk

I take God beg you. I no wan laugh abeg.

Eazy08100:
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F9 parallel

It is syntactically right but grammatically assumes two meanings i.e, it is ambiguous.

As a linguist, this is what we call Structural Ambiguity, where the sentence construction, I mean, the way and manner a sentence is structured brings about more than one meaning.

There is no definite answer. It depends on the way one goes about to analyse the sentence.

#TreeDiagram...

Mother or daughter. Because she (mother) was drunk. Correct . Because she (daughter) drunk. Correct also. Either way

Oga don't take it personal

Elesu:
I think it's the foolish daughter that drank till she became drunk.

Cc: Lalasticlala

She is the answer cos it was SHE that was drunk

This is an ambiguous statement, it could be the mother or the daughter since the pronoun "she" qualified both the mother and her daughter.

i think it's the mother coz If it was to be the daughter the it would have been "she got drunk" and not bcoz "she was drunk "

Elesu:
I think it's the foolish daughter that drank till she became drunk.

Cc: Lalasticlala

He who calls his brother a fool shall be in danger of hell. Matthew 5 :22

A MOTHER

A mother beat her daughter cos she was drunk. Daughter is the one being spoken/talked about.

A mother, beat her daughter, cos she was drunk. Mother is the one being spoken about.

Wetin concern me,if she like make she kill am

Inglish dey one kind sha
Why would the woman beat her daughter because she (the woman) is drunk or it's proper for the woman to beat her daughter because she (the daughter) is drunk
When I examined these two ladies- the woman and her daughter, both are "stupid". How do we decide who is drunk?

HeyCorleone:
Obviously it's the mother.

"a woman beat her daughter because she was drunk". Drunk qualifies the woman.

Correct.

Elesu:
I think it's the foolish daughter that drank till she became drunk.

Cc: Lalasticlala

nawa o, u don vex. Its jst an example ehn.