To repair compositional ambiguity, identify the scope of qualifiers and predicates, rather than merely counting words.
Example 1: “Zayd is learned and a poet” — two properties belong to him.
Example 2: “Zayd is learned in poetry” — now the object of his learning is poetry; the first does not entail this.
Example 3: “All students read a book” — the sentence may mean one common book or a possibly different book per student.
Specify the intended scope before drawing a conclusion. Explicit rewriting often exposes the hidden shift.