Identify the underlined portion containing a grammatical error:
The new environmental statute (A) not only penalizes industrial polluters (B) heavily, and also (C) mandates renewable energy investments (D).
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: D. (C) and also
Answer: (C) and also. Why not the others: (A), (B), and (D) are syntactically and semantically well-formed.
- Step 1: Identify the correlative conjunction: part (B) establishes the initial correlative pair 'not only'.
- Step 2: The mandatory correlative partner for 'not only' is 'but also', not 'and also'. Therefore, part (C) contains a grammatical error.
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