The Beauty of English<http://bit.ly/Pw38q>
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 eye
yesterday".<http://www.funzug.com/index.php/funzug-mails/the-beauty-of-english-fzmails.html>
The Query: What is this
word?<http://www.funzug.com/index.php/funzug-mails/the-beauty-of-english-fzmails.html>
The Answer: The word is
"ONLY".<http://www.funzug.com/index.php/funzug-mails/the-beauty-of-english-fzmails.html>
The
Message:<http://www.funzug.com/index.php/funzug-mails/the-beauty-of-english-fzmails.html>
1. ONLY I hit him in the eye yesterday. (No one else
did.)<http://www.funzug.com/index.php/funzug-mails/the-beauty-of-english-fzmails..html>
2. I ONLY hit him in the eye yesterday. (Did not slap
him.)<http://www.funzug.com/index.php/funzug-mails/the-beauty-of-english-fzmails.html>
3. I hit ONLY him in the eye yesterday. (I did not hit
others.)<http://www.funzug.com/index.php/funzug-mails/the-beauty-of-english-fzmails.html>
4. I hit him ONLY in the eye yesterday. (I did not hit outside the
eye.)<http://www.funzug.com/index.php/funzug-mails/the-beauty-of-english-fzmails.html>
5. I hit him in ONLY the eye yesterday. (Not other
organs.)<http://www.funzug.com/index.php/funzug-mails/the-beauty-of-english-fzmails.html>
6. I hit him in the ONLY eye yesterday. (He doesn't have another
eye.)<http://www.funzug.com/index.php/funzug-mails/the-beauty-of-english-fzmails.html>
7. I hit him in the eye ONLY yesterday. (Not
today.)<http://www.funzug.com/index.php/funzug-mails/the-beauty-of-english-fzmails.html>
8. I hit him in the eye yesterday ONLY. (Did not wait for
today.)<http://www.funzug.com/index.php/funzug-mails/the-beauty-of-english-fzmails.html>
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