Showing posts with label BUT ALSO. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BUT ALSO. Show all posts

Monday, November 1, 2010

NOT ONLY....BUT ALSO

NOT ONLY....BUT ALSO is probably the most commonly used idiom in the GMAT.

Consider this sentence please-

NOT ONLY is ROY tired BUT he is hungry.

Now, the above sentence is a wrong idiomatic expression.

The correct usage is:

NOT ONLY is ROY tired BUT he is ALSO hungry.

NOTE: Its not always essential to place BUT and ALSO together, they can be in a split as shown in the above sentence.