Tuesday, April 28, 2015

grammaticality - How should I phrase "Not only but also.."?



I am writing a sentence like so:




"I bought the Dell laptop because not only did I find the price appealing but I also liked the the fact that the laptop had an integrated webcam."




Is my use of ".. not only .. but also ..." appropriate? Is there a better way to phrase such a sentence?



Answer



This sounds better to me:




I bought the Dell laptop not only because I found the price appealing, but also because I liked the fact that the laptop had an integrated webcam.




I just moved the 'not only' up front. This pretty much cascaded to all the other changes: not splitting up "but also," keeping the tenses more consistent ('I found' vs. 'did I find'), etc.


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