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The girl came to her mother laughing.

Here who have done the act laughing? I mean whether it the girl or mother

Md Hasem
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Here who have done the act laughing?

Joke: she did the act of laughing :)

@ColleenV explained better than I could, how it is a joke:

Because both the girl and the mother are "she", someone could be a wisenheimer and answer "she" did the laughing.

The girl came to her mother laughing.

Joke aside, the sentence is 100% ambiguous. Different people will understand different things. Without any modification, it is impossible to tell which one of the two was laughing.

Disambiguation

To underline that the girl was laughing, the sentence can be arranged like:

The laughing girl came to her mother.

or

The girl, while laughing, came to her mother.

To underline that the mother was laughing, the sentence can be arranged like:

The girl came to her laughing mother.

or, using more words:

The girl came to her mother, while the mother was (still) laughing.

virolino
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  • I saw a girl eating rice. Here the act eating rice is done by the girl;not by me,is it? So Why laughing in the ssentence I saw the girl laughing is done by me? Thank you – Md Hasem Apr 13 '19 at 11:48
  • "I saw a girl eating rice." - is almost equally ambiguous, the same like any sentence following that pattern. – virolino Apr 15 '19 at 12:48
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It is definitely the girl who is doing the laughing. The sentence could be restructured to more clearly indicate the subject:

The girl, laughing, came to her mother.

The laughing girl came to her mother.

The girl was laughing as she came to her mother.

Edit: Bamboozled again. English is definitely the most user-friendly language :^)

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