Mrs. Smith is our English teacher. - English example sentence

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Dejo October 28, 2010 October 28, 2010 at 10:13:26 PM UTC

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Translators note that this sentence is ambiguous:
"English" maybe be the subject she is teaching or may refer to the nationality of Mrs. Smith.

CK September 8, 2015 September 8, 2015 at 1:12:40 PM UTC

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I wonder how ambiguous this really is.

If it were "an English teacher" I would agree that some people might assume you are talking about nationality.

However, with "our English teacher", the chance that the speaker is referring to nationality is very slim.

I think any native English speaker who really intended to refer to Mrs. Smith's nationality, would not word the sentence this way.