Monday, October 13, 2014

Sentence meaning changed with only

This is cool:

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She told him that she loved him.
  1. Only she told him that she loved him.
    - Only one person loves him. Her.
  2. She only told him that she loved him.
    - The only way she expressed her love for him was vocally. Who knows how she really feels?
  3. She told only him that she loved him.
    - He was the only one to be told by her of her love for him.
  4. She told him only that she loved him.
    - The only thing she said was that she loves him. Everything else was left hanging.
  5. She told him that only she loved him.
    - She made him painfully aware that only one person in the whole world loved him: Her.
  6. She told him that she only loved him.
    - She only loves him. She's not in love with him.
  7. She told him that she loved only him.
    - He's the only person that she loves.

Tuesday, October 7, 2014

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Tuesday, September 23, 2014

This is cool: The NY Times has a blog about Grammar

It's cooler than it sounds. http://afterdeadline.blogs.nytimes.com/. Here's an example post from a few days ago:

"A colleague points out one common construction that can almost always be improved by being shortened. It’s this formula:

"The [noun] is an [adjective] one.

"In most cases, both idiom and efficiency favor this instead:

"The [noun] is [adjective].

"So, for instance, “The answer is simple” is preferable to “The answer is a simple one.” Not only is the second version more verbose, but it ends with the meaningless “one” rather than the adjective “simple,” which deserves the emphasis."

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