| Expression | ...may mean any of |
|---|---|
| I am his friend too | I am one among his friends |
| he is one among my friends | |
| I can't help myself | I am unable to aide myself |
| I can't stop myself from doing (whatever) | |
| I can not take a helping | |
| I hope no | I hope that [it] will not |
| I do not hope | |
| I knew him better than anyone else | I knew everyone else less well than I knew him |
| Everyone else knew him less well than I did | |
| I knew him when he was better than anyone else | |
| I missed you | I wished you were here |
| I had to shoot at you again | |
| I once shot an elephant in my pajamas. | I once shot an elephant while I was in my pajamas. |
| I once shot an elephant while it was wearing my pajamas. | |
| I once shot an elephant while we both were in my pajamas. | |
| I really hope she works out | I hope she works outside |
| I hope she succeeds | |
| I hope she exercises | |
| I should ask him, not you. | he is the person I should ask, and you are not |
| I am the one who should ask him, and you are not | |
| I would recommend you to change | you would be the one whom I'd recommend for changing |
| I would give you the recommendation to do a change | |
| I would send a recommendation about you to the change | |
| I would recommend to you to wear some other clothes | |
| when the change comes, I'll recommend you to it | |
| I'll leave Saturday to Denver | on Saturday, I'll travel to Denver |
| I'll take the Sunday, and I leave the Saturday to this Denver guy | |
| If kings and lords observed this | If kings and lords were watching this |
| If kings and lords abided by this | |
| imagine looking into a bug report for 15 minutes only | do nothing else but only imagine, keep so for 15 minutes |
| do the imagining for no more than 15 minutes then stop imagining | |
| do nothing else for 15 minutes but look at the bug report | |
| do nothing else to the bug report but just keep looking at it | |
| look for 15 minutes at nothing else but a bug report | |
| any of the previous for fifteen of nothing else but minutes (not hours, not days) | |
| independent film festival | festival of independent film |
| independent festival of film | |
| information on the planet | information about the planet |
| information located on the planet | |
| internet is down here | internet here is down - no worky |
| found the internet - it's down here | |
| invoice recipient | invoice the recipient |
| recipient of invoice | |
| is wrong | has stated a falsehood |
| should be another one instead | |
| is not the proper course of action | |
| It's been years since I saw any network switch boxes | It's been years since I saw any switch boxes for a network |
| It's been years since I saw any network switching its boxes |