From Pushpa Gopinathan

Ah! The English language is both funny and rich. Just take a particular word that conveys so many things.

Professor Ernest Brennecke of Columbia is credited with making a sentence with eight different meanings by placing just one word in all possible positions in this short sentence: "I hit him in the eye yesterday."

The word is ONLY.

The sentence:

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. (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.)