1.12.2013

ONLY

Professor Ernest Brennecke of Columbia is credited with inventing a sentence that can be made to have eight different meanings by placing ONE WORD in all possible positions in the sentence: "I hit him in the eve vesterdav."
The word is "ONLY". The Message:
ONLY I hit him in the eve vesterdav. (No one else did.)
I ONLY hit him in the eye vesterdav. (Did not slap him.)
I hit ONLY him in the eye vesterday. (I did not hit others.)
I hit him ONLY in the eve vesterdav. (I did not hit outside the eye.)
I hit him in ONLY the eye yesterday. (Not other organs.)
I hit him in the ONLY eve vesterdav. (He doesn't have another eye.)
I hit him in the eye ONLY vesterdav. (Not todav.)
I hit him in the eve yesterday ONLY. (Did not wait for todav.)