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Grammarly doesn’t do all it claims to do
- DrScump 11y agoHeck, in the quote box from Grammarly's site (the one with five sentences), the middle three are run-on sentences!
- dragonwriter 11y agoNo, they aren't. They are grammatically correct sentences, all of the basic form "Grammarly's foo checker not only performs one function, but also performs another function." They are pretty much textbook examples of correct "not only / but also" structure.
- DrScump 11y agoNot when both clausea have their own verb. Here's the distinction. "The Grammarly spelling checker not only helps you locate misspelled words in your writing, but also helps you to identify the correctly-spelled words that you have used incorrectly." - RUN-ON SENTENCE "The Grammarly spelling checker not only helps you locate misspelled words in your writing, but also to identify the correctly-spelled words that you have used incorrectly." - Acceptable, but unnecessarily awkward
- dragonwriter 11y agoActually, your first example is also grammatically correct (not a run-on). "Not only / but also" is a correlative conjunction set; when it splits items that are complete verb phrases -- as in your first example and the Grammarly quotes -- there is a comma before the "but also", which is correctly present in the examples. There is no run on. For a basic discussion with examples, see http://www.theyuniversity.net/blog/2015/4/29/parallelism-with-correlative-conjunctions http://www.theyuniversity.net/blog/2015/4/29/parallelism-wit...