Question

i bought the exact same phone and ran home and recorded our greeting from the first phone onto it. i wrapped up the old phone in the scarf that grandma was never able to finish because of my privacy, and i put that in a grocery bag, and i put that in a box, and i put that in another box, and i put that under a bunch of stuff in my closet, like my jewelry workbench and albums of foreign currencies. - extremely loud and incredibly close, jonathan safran foer the bold text is ambiguous and has two meanings. check the two possible meanings for the bold text. the box is hidden under the jewelry workbench and albums of foreign currencies. the jewelry workbench is hiding the albums of foreign currencies. the jewelry workbench and albums of foreign currencies are hidden under stuff in the closet. the jewelry workbench and foreign albums are what the narrator likes most. done

Explanation:

The first option implies that the box is hidden under the jewelry workbench and the albums. The third option implies that both the jewelry workbench and the albums are hidden under stuff in the closet. These two interpretations are based on different ways of parsing the prepositional phrases in the original text.

Answer:

• The box is hidden under the jewelry workbench and albums of foreign currencies.
• The jewelry workbench and albums of foreign currencies are hidden under stuff in the closet.