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 In general, only ought to be attached to the word or phrase it is modifying and not set adrift, as here: "The A Class bus only ran on Sundays" (Observer). Taken literally, the sentence suggests that on other days of the week the bus did something else - perhaps flew? The writer would better have said that the bus "ran only on Sundays" or "on Sundays only."

Bryson’s dictionary for writers and editors. 2013.

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