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Parende Posted 4 years ago
Grammar

Not only but also inversion

Not only during James's arrival, but also in court does she exhibit her resourcefulness.

In this sentence, do I need to invert the sentence as I just did or not? I could not find a similar example.

  

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parende In this sentence, do I need to invert the sentence as I just did or not? Yes. That's fine.

  • parende In this sentence, do I need to invert the sentence as I just did or not?
  • Yes.
  • That's fine.
  • parende I could not find a similar example.
  • That's because the constituents that you are contrasting are not clauses (don't have verbs).
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parendeIn this sentence, do I need to invert the sentence as I just did or not?

Yes. That's fine.

parendeI could not find a similar example.

That's because the constituents that you are contrasting are not clauses (don't have verbs). This is less commonly seen. We expect this:

Not only during James's ar

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