 It is important to recognize that many sophismata contain syncategorematic words that are responsible for their odd, ambiguous or puzzling character. They can be difficult to interpret, specially when more than one syncategorematic word occurs in one and the same sentence. In the sophismata literature, discussions of problematic sentences are usually accompanied by an explanation of the distinctions governing the use of syncategorematic words. In turn such distinctions can help to interpret the sentence at issue.