The uniqueness of the English language...

Professor Ernest Brennecke of Columbia in USA 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.)