Adverbs that emphasize or limit: only, even, just, also
Place focusing adverb directly before the word it modifies
Not even he could solve it.
Did you only see one person?
💡 Position matters! 'Only' changes meaning based on what it's next to.
✓I only eat vegetables. (nothing else)
✗I eat only vegetables.
Both are grammatical, but position changes emphasis. First = I do nothing but eat them; second = vegetables only, not meat.
✓Even children understood the joke.
✗Children even understood the joke.
'Even' should come before what's surprising (children).
✓She just left five minutes ago.
✗She left just five minutes ago.
Both work, but first emphasizes the recent departure.