{"id":74068,"date":"2020-04-17T06:26:19","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T06:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=74068"},"modified":"2024-07-21T11:41:40","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T11:41:40","slug":"position-of-only-and-even","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/position-of-only-and-even\/","title":{"rendered":"Position Of Only And Even"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The focusing adverbs <strong>only<\/strong> and <strong>even<\/strong> refer to particular parts of a sentence, so they should go immediately before the word modified by them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Study the examples given below and note how the meaning changes with a change in the position of only and even.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Only Shyam can read my emails. (Shyam can read my emails; others cannot.)<\/li><li>Shyam can only read my emails. (Shyam cannot do anything else. He can only read my emails.)<\/li><li>Shyam can read only my emails. (Shyam cannot read anything else. The only things he can read are my emails.)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Only Rupa could solve the puzzle. (Nobody else could solve the puzzle.)<\/li><li>Rupa could solve only the puzzle. (Rupa could not do anything else, but she could solve the puzzle.)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Only Rahul can stay in my home. (Nobody else can stay in my home.)<\/li><li>Rahul can only stay in my home. (He must do anything else.)<\/li><li>Rahul can stay only in my home. (Rahul must not stay anywhere else.)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Even Rohan could not solve the problem. (Rohan, let alone anybody else, could solve the problem.)<\/li><li>Rohan could not even solve the problem. (Rohan could not do other things, let alone solve the problem.)<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The focusing adverbs only and even refer to particular parts of a sentence, so they should go immediately before the word modified by them. Study the examples given below and note how the meaning&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[1456,2690],"class_list":["post-74068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-even","tag-only"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74068"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77849,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74068\/revisions\/77849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}