This paper investigates the syntactic type of ambiguity. It provides background information concerning various principles related to ambiguity on the syntactic level. This study also aims to shed light on the possible cases where Arab learners of English lack the ability to comprehend certain syntactically ambiguous constructions. It also discusses each kind of syntactic ambiguity according to the syntactic form it takes. In addition, this paper explores the several sources of syntactic ambiguity. Recently, many studies have been conducted to disambiguate ambiguous constructions. This paper provides some theoretical issues that many linguists have posed in order to tackle the phenomenon of ambiguity in syntax.