Timeline for Correct position of "only"
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| May 16, 2020 at 7:17 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Jul 19, 2018 at 21:52 | comment | added | Rodney Atkins | Talia Ford, I think Webster's would disagree with you: merriam-webster.com/dictionary/only. It seems to me that definition 1, sense 2a, would apply to both 1 and 3. | |
| Oct 7, 2013 at 6:28 | comment | added | Talia Ford | You've got the adverb/adjective dichotomy wrong. In all four of your sentences, only is an adverb. | |
| Oct 24, 2012 at 11:26 | history | edited | Geoffrey | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 17, 2012 at 15:30 | comment | added | coleopterist | I eat fish when only I'm sick. | |
| Jan 14, 2011 at 15:51 | comment | added | psmears | "I only eat fish when I'm sick" would be more likely to be understood as "I don't eat fish except when I'm sick", or perhaps "When I'm sick, I eat nothing but fish". In order to ensure that the meaning was "The only thing I do to fish is eat then", extra emphasis would have to be placed on "eat" in pronunciation. | |
| Nov 24, 2010 at 7:41 | history | answered | Geoffrey | CC BY-SA 2.5 |