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Hans51 Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
A question about "not A, but B"
Hello, teachers. How are you? I have a question about "not A, but B" structure.
1) I study not English but Japanese.
2) I am not your friend, but your father.
3) I do not study English but practice it.
So my question is whether we can consider the meaning of "not A, but B" structure to be the same with that of "not only A ,but also B" structure? Or they are always different in meaning?
Thank you so much as usual and have a good day.
1) I study not English but Japanese.
2) I am not your friend, but your father.
3) I do not study English but practice it.
So my question is whether we can consider the meaning of "not A, but B" structure to be the same with that of "not only A ,but also B" structure? Or they are always different in meaning?
Thank you so much as usual and have a good day.
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Hans51 So my question is whether we can consider the meaning of "not A, but B" structure to be the same with as that of "not only A ,but also B" structure? Or they are always different in meaning? They are always very different Hans51 I study not English but Japanese.
- Hans51 So my question is whether we can consider the meaning of "not A, but B" structure to be the same with as that of "not only A ,but also B" structure?
- Or they are always different in meaning?
- They are always very different Hans51 I study not English but Japanese.
- This means that I study only one language - Japanese I study not only English but also Japanese.
- This means that I study two languages - English and Japanese.
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Hans51So my question is whether we can consider the meaning of "not A, but B" structure to be the sameThey are always very differentwithas that of "not only A ,but also B" structure? Or they are always different in meaning?
Hans51 I study not English but Japanese.This means
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Thank you, and come to think of it, I have never seen sentences written like #1, so is it okay to say "study not A, but B" or it should be "I do not study A but B." Thank you for your time and help.
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