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Use of And also (sentence correction) [#permalink] New post   12 Apr 2019, 23:58
Dear Experts,

Whenever "and also" is used in an option in a sentence correction question. Can we directly reject it on the basis of this or it would just be a suspect?

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Re: Use of And also (sentence correction) [#permalink] New post   13 Apr 2019, 00:27
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Re: Use of And also (sentence correction) [#permalink] New post   13 Apr 2019, 00:16
Connor1396 wrote:
Dear Experts,

Whenever "and also" is used in an option in a sentence correction question. Can we directly reject it on the basis of this or it would just be a suspect?

Thanks in advance


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In my opinion use of 'and also' is not incorrect.
You cannot reject it directly. You need to find other errors.
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Re: Use of And also (sentence correction) [#permalink] New post   15 Apr 2019, 22:59
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Hi Connor1396, also is just added for emphasis/rhetorical purposes and so, and also construct can definitely be correct; in fact, it would not even be a suspect.

There are numerous examples of in which officially correct answer uses this construct.

For example:

A novelist who turned away from literary realism to write romantic stories about the peasant life and landscape of northern Sweden, Selma Lagerlöf became in 1909 the first woman and also the first Swedish writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature..
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