A big raise has not only been given, at the beginning of the year, to the janitors but to the maintenance workers also.
(A) A big raise has not only been given, at the beginning of the year, to the janitors but to the maintenance workers also.
(B) At the beginning of the year, a big raise has been given, not only to the janitors but to the maintenance workers also.
(C) A big raise has not only been given, at the beginning of the year, to the janitors but also to the maintenance workers.
(D) A big raise has not only been given, at the beginning of the year, to the janitors but to the maintenance workers as well.
(E) At the beginning of the year, a big raise was given, not only to the janitors but also to the maintenance workers as well.
The uses of the idiom not only................ but also...... Except E all other options distort the parallelism as well as the tense.
IMO E