Re: [www.keralites.net] English language

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This sentence I used to quote during my training sessions. By stressing the word in "bold", the meaning conveyed will be different..................

I WANT YOU TO COME HERE RIGHT NOW (apparently looks like an innocent meaning sentence, right?)

Now, put emphasis / stress on the word, and then read out the sentence..........

1. I WANT YOU TO COME HERE RIGHT NOW
2. I WANT YOU TO COME HERE RIGHT NOW
3. I WANT YOU TO COME HERE RIGHT NOW
4. I WANT YOU TO COME HERE RIGHT NOW
5. I WANT YOU TO COME HERE RIGHT NOW
6. I WANT YOU TO COME HERE RIGHT NOW

ANANTH.....................

On 2 October 2010 17:22, rao p rajesh <raopr_in@yahoo.com> wrote:

 

The uniqueness of  the English language   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.)

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