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11 Oct 2016, 11:19
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As criminal activity on the Internet becomes more and more sophisticated, not only are thieves able to divert cash from company bank accounts, they can also pilfer valuable information such as business development strategies, new product specifications, and contract bidding plans, and sell the data to competitors.
A. they can also pilfer valuable information such as business development strategies, new product specifications, and contract bidding plans, and sell
B. they can also pilfer valuable information that includes business development strategies, new product specifications, and contract bidding plans, and selling
C. also pilfering valuable information including business development strategies, new product specifications, and contract bidding plans, selling
D. but also pilfer valuable information such as business development strategies, new product specifications, and contract bidding plans to sell
E. but also pilfering valuable information such as business development strategies, new product specifications, and contract bidding plans and selling
Hi Mike
Can you please comment on the use of not only structure in choice A. Choice A omits But, which i think can be omitted if we use the semicolon as is illustrated in some grammar books. Dose not the absence of but creates a run-on?
Choice A should have been written as follows
As criminal activity on the Internet becomes more and more sophisticated, not only are thieves able to divert cash from company bank accounts ; they can also pilfer valuable information such as business development strategies, new product specifications, and contract bidding plans, and sell the data to competitors.
Thanks
B
A. they can also pilfer valuable information such as business development strategies, new product specifications, and contract bidding plans, and sell
B. they can also pilfer valuable information that includes business development strategies, new product specifications, and contract bidding plans, and selling
C. also pilfering valuable information including business development strategies, new product specifications, and contract bidding plans, selling
D. but also pilfer valuable information such as business development strategies, new product specifications, and contract bidding plans to sell
E. but also pilfering valuable information such as business development strategies, new product specifications, and contract bidding plans and selling
Hi Mike
Can you please comment on the use of not only structure in choice A. Choice A omits But, which i think can be omitted if we use the semicolon as is illustrated in some grammar books. Dose not the absence of but creates a run-on?
Choice A should have been written as follows
As criminal activity on the Internet becomes more and more sophisticated, not only are thieves able to divert cash from company bank accounts ; they can also pilfer valuable information such as business development strategies, new product specifications, and contract bidding plans, and sell the data to competitors.
Thanks
B
11 Oct 2016, 15:43
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baithak
As criminal activity on the Internet becomes more and more sophisticated, not only are thieves able to divert cash from company bank accounts, they can also pilfer valuable information such as business development strategies, new product specifications, and contract bidding plans, and sell the data to competitors.
A. they can also pilfer valuable information such as business development strategies, new product specifications, and contract bidding plans, and sell
B. they can also pilfer valuable information that includes business development strategies, new product specifications, and contract bidding plans, and selling
C. also pilfering valuable information including business development strategies, new product specifications, and contract bidding plans, selling
D. but also pilfer valuable information such as business development strategies, new product specifications, and contract bidding plans to sell
E. but also pilfering valuable information such as business development strategies, new product specifications, and contract bidding plans and selling
Hi Mike
Can you please comment on the use of not only structure in choice A. Choice A omits But, which i think can be omitted if we use the semicolon as is illustrated in some grammar books. Dose not the absence of but creates a run-on?
Choice A should have been written as follows
As criminal activity on the Internet becomes more and more sophisticated, not only are thieves able to divert cash from company bank accounts ; they can also pilfer valuable information such as business development strategies, new product specifications, and contract bidding plans, and sell the data to competitors.
Thanks
B
Dear baithak,A. they can also pilfer valuable information such as business development strategies, new product specifications, and contract bidding plans, and sell
B. they can also pilfer valuable information that includes business development strategies, new product specifications, and contract bidding plans, and selling
C. also pilfering valuable information including business development strategies, new product specifications, and contract bidding plans, selling
D. but also pilfer valuable information such as business development strategies, new product specifications, and contract bidding plans to sell
E. but also pilfering valuable information such as business development strategies, new product specifications, and contract bidding plans and selling
Hi Mike
Can you please comment on the use of not only structure in choice A. Choice A omits But, which i think can be omitted if we use the semicolon as is illustrated in some grammar books. Dose not the absence of but creates a run-on?
Choice A should have been written as follows
As criminal activity on the Internet becomes more and more sophisticated, not only are thieves able to divert cash from company bank accounts ; they can also pilfer valuable information such as business development strategies, new product specifications, and contract bidding plans, and sell the data to competitors.
Thanks
B
I'm happy to respond.
My friend, when you post an SC question, please underline. I underlined for you in this question. This is simply a courtesy that makes things so much easier on anyone reading the question. This, of course, is SC #799 in the OG 2017.
It's funny. Version (A), the OA, does NOT need a semicolon. Ordinarily, if we had [independent clause #1] and right after that, with no conjunction, another independent clause beginning with "they also do X," then yes, we would need to separate the clauses with a semicolon. By contrast, in this case the "not only" in the first clause creates such rhetorical expectation that we absolutely know a contrast is coming, and even without the "but," the phrase "they also do X" after a comma is perfectly fine.
Does all this make sense?
Mike
23 Mar 2017, 08:02
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baithak
As criminal activity on the Internet becomes more and more sophisticated, not only are thieves able to divert cash from company bank accounts, they can also pilfer valuable information such as business development strategies, new product specifications, and contract bidding plans, and sell the data to competitors.
A. they can also pilfer valuable information such as business development strategies, new product specifications, and contract bidding plans, and sell
B. they can also pilfer valuable information that includes business development strategies, new product specifications, and contract bidding plans, and selling
C. also pilfering valuable information including business development strategies, new product specifications, and contract bidding plans, selling
D. but also pilfer valuable information such as business development strategies, new product specifications, and contract bidding plans to sell
E. but also pilfering valuable information such as business development strategies, new product specifications, and contract bidding plans and selling
Hi Mike
Can you please comment on the use of not only structure in choice A. Choice A omits But, which i think can be omitted if we use the semicolon as is illustrated in some grammar books. Dose not the absence of but creates a run-on?
Choice A should have been written as follows
As criminal activity on the Internet becomes more and more sophisticated, not only are thieves able to divert cash from company bank accounts ; they can also pilfer valuable information such as business development strategies, new product specifications, and contract bidding plans, and sell the data to competitors.
Thanks
B
Dear baithak,A. they can also pilfer valuable information such as business development strategies, new product specifications, and contract bidding plans, and sell
B. they can also pilfer valuable information that includes business development strategies, new product specifications, and contract bidding plans, and selling
C. also pilfering valuable information including business development strategies, new product specifications, and contract bidding plans, selling
D. but also pilfer valuable information such as business development strategies, new product specifications, and contract bidding plans to sell
E. but also pilfering valuable information such as business development strategies, new product specifications, and contract bidding plans and selling
Hi Mike
Can you please comment on the use of not only structure in choice A. Choice A omits But, which i think can be omitted if we use the semicolon as is illustrated in some grammar books. Dose not the absence of but creates a run-on?
Choice A should have been written as follows
As criminal activity on the Internet becomes more and more sophisticated, not only are thieves able to divert cash from company bank accounts ; they can also pilfer valuable information such as business development strategies, new product specifications, and contract bidding plans, and sell the data to competitors.
Thanks
B
I'm happy to respond.
My friend, when you post an SC question, please underline. I underlined for you in this question. This is simply a courtesy that makes things so much easier on anyone reading the question. This, of course, is SC #799 in the OG 2017.
It's funny. Version (A), the OA, does NOT need a semicolon. Ordinarily, if we had [independent clause #1] and right after that, with no conjunction, another independent clause beginning with "they also do X," then yes, we would need to separate the clauses with a semicolon. By contrast, in this case the "not only" in the first clause creates such rhetorical expectation that we absolutely know a contrast is coming, and even without the "but," the phrase "they also do X" after a comma is perfectly fine.
Does all this make sense?
Mike
I am sorry to say that still combination of "not only" and "they can also" isn't clear to me. Moreover, Why sell can not be parallel to pilfer?
If you don't mind could you please explain these issues any further?
Thanks in advance...
-Nahid
