Sentence Correction

Bengal - born writer, philosopher, and educator Rabindranath Tagore had the greatest admiration for Mohandas K. Gandhi the person and also as a politician, but Tagore had been skeptical of Gandhi's form of nationalism and his conservative opinions about India's cultural traditions


A. same
B. for Mohandas K.Gandhi as a person and as a politician, but Tagore was also
C. for Mohandas K.Gandhi not only as a person and as a politician, but Tagore was also
D. of Mohandas K.Gandhi as a person and as also a politician, but Tagore was
E. of Mohandas K.Gandhi not only as a person and as a politician, but Tagore had also been

[spoiler]OA : B
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Now I do understand the OA. But I have a more general question regarding solution B. Is it ever possible that in a "not only...but also" contruction something is written among "but" and "also". Like in the above "but Tagore was also". Or can I always eliminate such as answer choice.

Thanks

you took it wrong i think

Not only.. but also... always follow each other.. and used to state simultaneously parallel events
here but is coordination conjunction showing contrast..anyway not related to "also". also is like "in addition to" for eg... MK gandhi is also known as "Bapu"..

I hopet it helps

Benni wrote:Bengal - born writer, philosopher, and educator Rabindranath Tagore had the greatest admiration for Mohandas K. Gandhi the person and also as a politician, but Tagore had been skeptical of Gandhi's form of nationalism and his conservative opinions about India's cultural traditions


A. same
B. for Mohandas K.Gandhi as a person and as a politician, but Tagore was also
C. for Mohandas K.Gandhi not only as a person and as a politician, but Tagore was also
D. of Mohandas K.Gandhi as a person and as also a politician, but Tagore was
E. of Mohandas K.Gandhi not only as a person and as a politician, but Tagore had also been

[spoiler]OA : B
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Now I do understand the OA. But I have a more general question regarding solution B. Is it ever possible that in a "not only...but also" contruction something is written among "but" and "also". Like in the above "but Tagore was also". Or can I always eliminate such as answer choice.

Thanks

B is not about use of NOT ONLY...BUT ALSO idiom. But, IMO your view

Benni wrote: Is it ever possible that in a "not only...but also" contruction something is written among "but" and "also"

is CORRECT

Ron says "NOT ONLY...BUT ALSO idiom we should expect nothing in between BUT & ALSO". We can expect something in between BUT & ALSO only when similar (grammatically similar) thing is there in between NOT & ALSO.

Ron said in one of posts ""not only ... but also" - your detection of parallelism (or lack thereof) should be COMPLETELY mechanical. just look at the words that follow the first part, and look at the words that follow the second part (and DON'T ignore any words). if they don't have the same grammatical structure, then the parallelism is faulty.

By pressing a tiny amount of nitrogen between two diamonds to a pressure of 25 milliion pounds per square inch, scientists not only were able to transform the gas into a solid, but they also created a semiconductor similar to silicon (INCORRECT)[/u]

Thank you guys. I think I now understand this issue.

Hello Experts ,

Can you please explain that why option E is wrong?

Please explain.

Thanks.