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Stenka25 Posted 5 years ago
Grammar

‘NOT ONLY’ sentence without ‘but (also)’

‘NOT ONLY’ sentence without ‘but (also)’


The passage below comes from the following Utube video. The part starts at 01:52.


(55) Bellerophon: The Rise and Fall of a Tragic Hero - (Greek Mythology Explained) - YouTube


The King believed in the word of his wife was now furious to say the least. Not only had Bellerophon taken his hospitality and thrown it back in his face, but the pardon he gave him now made him a guest in his kingdom and to kill a guest in your own kingdom is to incur the wrath of Zeus. The only solution Proetus had was to send Bellerophon to his father-in-law King Iobates accompanied of a sealed letter asking him to execute Bellerophon for violating his wife.


I have two questions on this passage.


First, the 1st sentence is grammatically incomplete. It has two main verbs but no conjunction. (Am I right?) I think this sentence should have ‘who’ before ‘believed’, or have ‘and’ before ‘was’. (Am I right?)


Last and the much harder, the next sentence is incomplete in contextual sense. ‘Not only had...’ part shows the king’s reason for his fury, and that’s proper and OK with me. But the problem is that if a sentence starts with ‘not only’ it also has another information starting with ‘but (also)’, and in this sentence another reason for the king not to kill Bellerophon. There no added information about the reason of his fury, but then it just follows the reason not to kill him with ‘but the pardon...’


Do you agree with my line of thought?

If you do, could you give me better sentence in stead of the author of this video?

If you don’t, could you tell me where I am wrong?


Thanks in advance.

  

Top answer

Stenka25 First, the 1st sentence is grammatically incomplete. e. the sentence is "The king, believing the word of his wife, was now furious, to say the least".

  • Stenka25 First, the 1st sentence is grammatically incomplete.
  • e.
  • the sentence is "The king, believing the word of his wife, was now furious, to say the least".
  • The speaker's intonation of the sentence is not tremendously helpful for making this clear.
  • ’ The fact that the king could not kill Bellerophon added to his fury.
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Stenka25First, the 1st sentence is grammatically incomplete.

He says "believing" not "believed in", i.e. the sentence is "The king, believing the word of his wife, was now furious, to say the least". The speaker's intonation of the sentence is not tremendously helpful for making this clear.

Stenka25There no added information abou

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