Originally Posted by GotJDM?

I just read this in my Journalism text book:

'The teacher wrote this on the board:

Only she hit him in the eye.

She then told them to write the sentence as many times as they could changing the placement of only.

She only hit him in the eye
She hit only him in the eye.
She hit him only in the eye.
She hit him in only the eye.
She hit him in the only eye.
She hit him in the eye only.

The lesson is about effective writing. Basically word and punctation placement. There is another example (to long to type) where just the punctuation was changed, which made the story completely different.

One my actual teacher showed us was.

Tom's $10.5 million dollars is to be split evenly between Jill, Bob, Kim and Pat.

That would mean Jill 1/3, Bob 1/3, Kim and Pat 1/3.

Now if it said..

Tom's $10.5 million dollars is to be split evenly between Jill, Bob, Kim, and Pat.
Than its Jill 1/4, Bob 1/4, Kim 1/4, and Pat 1/4.