Fun with hitting people in the eye

I saw this article that I really must store for keepsakes.

It seems that Professor Ernest Brennecke of Columbia has found a sentence that can be made to have eight different meanings by placing the word "only" in all possible positions in the sentence. The sentence is "I hit him in the eye yesterday."

Here are the sentences with "only" added in:

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.)

Haha, I love these things :D

Though I think that the explanations in brackets for numbers 7 and 8 are a little off. For number 7 I would have put "Very recently" or "Not very long ago". And for number 8 I would prefer "Not on any other day" (not today, not the day before yesterday, etc). Does "Did not wait for today" come in in any way?