Beauty of English
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."
The Query: What is this word?
The Answer: The word is "ONLY".
The Message:
1. ONLY I hit him in the eye yesterday. (No one else did.)
2. I ONLY hit him in the eye yesterday. (Did not slap him.)
3. I hit ONLY him in the eye yesterday. (I did not hit others.)
4. I hit him ONLY in the eye yesterday. (I did not hit outside the eye.)
5. I hit him in ONLY the eye yesterday. (Not other organs.)
6. I hit him in the ONLY eye yesterday. (He doesn't have another eye.)
7. I hit him in the eye ONLY yesterday. (Not today.)
8. I hit him in the eye yesterday ONLY. (Did not wait for today.)
Ok..Something new to learn today..
smart
i don't think that this is the "ONLY" way to describe the beauty of english. but it is funny
only , haha !!
i agree with him
I hit this post by mistake today. (Only to be used in different variations)
He invented a sentence???
So nobody used any of these sentences before him
Your reasoning in brackets for the 8th example is incorrect.
It is implying that he hit him in the eye yesterday, and not on any preceding or subsequent days.
helo, hw r u guys
'only' means a lot to him :)
Ok