an article he wrote

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a. He showed me an article which he wrote last night and which was about whales.
Could 'last night' modify 'showed'?
Could the sentence mean:
Last night he showed me an article which he wrote and which was about whales.
I know that (a) is an awkward sentence, but I think it is grammatical. I want to see if it is ambiguous. To me it seems that 'last night' can only modify 'wrote', but I am not sure about that.
Many thanks.

rcook · Answer

If someone uses '... wrote last night ...' in a sentence, then the sentence indicates the time that it was written. If they meant that something else happened last night, they need to construct the sentence differently. It isn't ambiguous.

Answered by rcook on October 1, 2021

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