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"The ecosystem of enablers includes wealth managers, banks, private equity houses, accountants, lawyers – and the growing army of philanthropy advisers, lobbyists, and thinktanks – who have been complicit in the infiltration by those close to Putin of not just our political infrastructure, but our property market, businesses, charities, public bodies, arts, culture, and sports."
(The Guardian.)
Is the AdvP "not just" a modifier of the whole noun phrase "our political infrastructure" or is it modifying only the determinative "our" in the PP "of not just our political infrastructure"?
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anonymous Is the AdvP "not just" a modifier of the whole noun phrase "our political infrastructure" Yes. anonymous is it modifying only the determinative "our" in the PP "of not just our political infrastructure"? No.
- anonymous Is the AdvP "not just" a modifier of the whole noun phrase "our political infrastructure" Yes.
- anonymous is it modifying only the determinative "our" in the PP "of not just our political infrastructure"?
- No.
- In such cases the determinative would change after "but", and the head noun would remain the same: ...
- not just our money but your money as well ...
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anonymousIs the AdvP "not just" a modifier of the whole noun phrase "our political infrastructure"
Yes.
anonymousis it modifying only the determinative "our" in the PP "of not just our political infrastructure"?
No. In such cases the determinative would change after "but", and the head noun would remain the same:
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