epicpseudonym:

drn007:

I didn’t run over your cat

He might eat one chocolate cookie.

I swear I had a professor ask us something like this once but I can’t remember…

1. I never said she stole my money

Meaning “I” never said she stole my money but someone else could have said it. 

2. I never said she stole my money

Meaning “I” literally have never said “she stole my money”

3. I never said she stole my money

Meaning “I” never “said” she stole my money but I could have thought she stole it

4. I never said she stole my money

Meaning “I” never said “she” stole my money but I could have said someone else stole it. 

5. I never said she stole my money

Meaning “I” never said she “stole” my money but she could have borrowed it or “I” could have given her money. 

6. I never said she stole my money

Meaning “I” never said she stole “my” money but she could have stolen someone else’s money. 

7. I never said she stole my money

Meaning “I” never said she stole my “money” but she could have stolen something else of mine.