Teo  +  361353 Mon, 07 May 07 04:14 AM 1.      He likes to play not only basketball 　　　 baseball. (A) and　(B) and also　(C) also　(D) but The given answer is D, but I think none of the choices is correct. Am I right? Teo Joined on Tue, Sep 28 2004 Taiwan Contributing Member 1,631 Thank you very much for your reply.

	Yankee  +  361358 Mon, 07 May 07 04:34 AM I don't like any of the options either, Teo.   I'd go for option (E) but also. Yankee Joined on Sat, Apr 15 2006 Connecticut, USA Veteran Member 6,502 Amy "You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." - Mark Twain

	Grammar Geek  +  361359 Mon, 07 May 07 04:56 AM Likewise, Yankee. But also. Grammar Geek Joined on Tue, Jan 10 2006 Veteran Member 19,683 Barbara, who answers in American English. My housekeeping skills attest to the truth of the second law of thermodynamics: Left to themselves, things get more and more random!

	Teo  +  463282 Sat, 12 Jan 08 07:31 AM not only ... but (also) ... both ... and ...: He not only read the book, but also remembered what he had read.  Page 1041, Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary not only ... (but) also ... used to emphasize that sth else is also true: She not only wrote the text but also selected the illustrations. Page 1037, Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary Which can be omitted: but, also or either word? Teo

	Dunchee  +  463452 Sat, 12 Jan 08 07:05 PM  Yankee wrote: I don't like any of the options either, Teo.   I'd go for option (E) but also. Hi, This may sound a bit blunt, and I apologize for it, but is your reply a personal preference or ....? I agree that "but also" sounds better, but "He likes to play basketball and baseball" is even better. What I'm trying to say is the real problem is the test sentence itself, not the "not only ... but" syntax. With a proper context, this syntax is perfectly fine. For example: (from The Collins WordbanksOnline English corpus) "... the time of Desideri. Moreover, he was not only an observer but a participant; unlike those ..." Again, I apologize if I offended any of the posters here. -- DJ Dunchee Joined on Tue, Jan 8 2008 Massachusetts New Member 12 -- not a native speaker of English

	Hoa Thai  +  463494 Sat, 12 Jan 08 11:50 PM  Teo wrote: not only ... but (also) ... both ... and ...: He not only read the book, but also remembered what he had read.  Page 1041, Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary not only ... (but) also ... used to emphasize that sth else is also true: She not only wrote the text but also selected the illustrations. Page 1037, Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary Which can be omitted: but, also or either word? Hi, The source that you quoted clearly answers why we have to use but also as in "not only basketball but also baseball." Baseball neither intensifies nor complements basketball. We leave out the also from the construction to intensify the not only part as in "She is not only smart but brilliant." We leave out the but to complement the not only part as your example shows. Illustrations and text together make whole a task of layout for instance. Hoa Thai Joined on Mon, Oct 15 2007 Vietnam Contributing Member 1,100 Best Regards - Hoa Thai Constructions