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> But human beings do often spontaneously speak and write and hear and read complex sentences. By the way, a simple expression like "How much is 2 times 1 plus 1?" should be understood as "How much is 2 times (1 plus 1)?" or "How much is (2 times 1) plus 1?". --- There are many ambiguities in natural sentences like "I saw a monkey combing another brown monkey's hair with a yellow comb. It was very big!" ; Which monkey had a yellow comb? What was brown, the monkey or its hair? What was big? Monkey 1, monkey 2, the hair or the comb? They are usually resolved by context, but I wonder what is the best way to make unambiguous sentences with such a complexity sound as natural as possible. And I wonder if normal people on the streets would naturally and effectively deal with such a syntactic structure. Anyway, I don't if this is the goal of most engelangs.