These days I am more inclined towards playing with words. The position of words drastically change the conveyed meaning. Not only words, a mere position of comma, also achieves the same.
We can see the example below:
Only he lent me five cents. (= He and nobody else lent me five cents.)
He only lent me five cents. (= He only lent me the money, he didn’t do anything else.)
He lent me only five cents. (= He didn’t lend me more than five cents.)
He lent only me five cents. (i.e. to nobody else)
People oblivious of this fact keep using words in wrong position resulting in hilarious situations.
We can see the example below:
Only he lent me five cents. (= He and nobody else lent me five cents.)
He only lent me five cents. (= He only lent me the money, he didn’t do anything else.)
He lent me only five cents. (= He didn’t lend me more than five cents.)
He lent only me five cents. (i.e. to nobody else)
People oblivious of this fact keep using words in wrong position resulting in hilarious situations.
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