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IrinaOK · Answer

would go for C, 

paralellism and idiom

never heard of 'were not only able to....' as it is in E

IrinaOK · Answer

Is it an idiom? are there any gereral rules for usage of "were not only......" OR "not only were... "

Sachu · Answer

Gotta be E 

Its follow Not only follows "not only ...but also format", but also follows the parallelism rule ..

excelgmat · Answer

rule is follow the idiom. e.g. what comes after not only should come after but also. 
e.g. not only were---but also were

were not only X ===but also Y. 

not only to ---but also to -------

Hope it helps.

humtum0 · Answer

Please be careful with OA..so many test takers here trust the OA...

OA for this is .C.

StartupAddict · Answer

wtf

NOT ONLY...... BUT ALSO

is the correct idiom

but it's gmatprep wtf??

DTM · Answer

wow this kinda throws everything I've learned out the window, can someone explain why C is right over all the others?

Beyond700 · Answer

If the OA is 'C' then we have learnt something new today.

After bit of explore, I found something interesting on the usage of 'not only...but also'.

Which one is right ?
 Scientists were able not only ...
or 
 Scientist were not only able...

Both are correct. It depends on the grammatical construction with the element of the same grammatical type.

Now coming to the usage of 'also' .
 Leaving out the 'also' from this construction tends to intensify the first part of the construction rather than supplement it: 
 Eg:- 
 She is not only smart but brilliant. 
 He not only wanted the diamond but wanted it desperately

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