Great post. I enjoyed not only what said about how that word should be written, but, especially, how all the matter has been treated.
I would like to know if the sentence above is correct.
Just a little bit of context: I really appreciated an article about English grammar, then I would like to compliment author on it.
Answer
Technically speaking:
Great post.
is not a full sentence. It’s shorthand for:
This is a great post.
That said, this structure gets used all the time in conversation:
Let’s go bowling tonight.
Great idea.
It also gets used in print, when the author feels like the stripped down sentence might have more impact.
So, asking about “correctness” can be tricky sometimes.
As for:
I enjoyed not only what said about how that word should be written, but, especially, how all the matter has been treated.
Aside from the missing “you” (between “what” and “said”), I can’t find anything else grammatically or syntactically incorrect, but it still reads a little awkwardly. I would suggest:
I enjoyed what you said about how that word should be written, but I appreciated how you explained the entire matter even more.
There’s nothing wrong with using not only – it’s a valid construct – I just felt it read awkwardly in your sentence. If you really wanted to use it, I’d move it to the front:
Not only did I enjoy what you said about how that word should be written, but I especially enjoyed how all the other matter was treated as well.
But that’s a matter of style, not correctness.
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Source : Link , Question Author : jeysmith , Answer Author : J.R.
