“Not Only/But Also”

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These words are called “correlative conjunctions.” Like their counterpart coordinate conjunctions, they link grammatically equal parts. The word also can be moved to later in the construction, or it can be omitted entirely. …not only John but also Bill… …not only John but Bill also… …not only John but Bill… When these link two sentences, there is a comma before …