A sentence that can be made to have 8 different meanings by placing one word in all possible positions in the sentence. "I hit him in the eye yesterday"
The word is "only'
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)
this is the beauty of English language.
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