Poll: They only eat junk food.

They only eat junk food.

They don't eat anything else.
They don't do anything to junk food other than eat it.
Either

Votes: 329
Comments: 2
Added: June 2004

Comments:

Cyndi - 8th May 2008 11:57
They only eat junk food. This implies that they eat nothing else. However, while speaking, we say 'only eat' to imply the same.
 
Cody - 14th October 2009 02:34
If you want to speak grammatical English the second answer is correct. The vast majority of voters are wrong here because adverbs such as only, almost, nearly, etc. always modify the word which immediately follows. For the first choice to be true one should say "They eat only junk food." It's not the most common, but it's grammatical. The other literally means that they do nothing to junk food other than eat it, as the second option says.
 
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