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Re: REPLY if you see this: A test

From:Joe Fatula <fatula3@...>
Date:Thursday, March 27, 2003, 22:50
From: "Christophe Grandsire" <christophe.grandsire@...>
Subject: Re: REPLY if you see this: A test


> Not only they are, but I've received some of your mails more than once.
I've been trying to think up an example like this for days, and this just dropped out of the blue. Well, it dropped from the mouth of Christophe, but that's not the point. As a native English speaker, "Not only they are..." sounds terrible, whereas "Not only are they..." sounds just fine. Either way I'd use a second clause that is more in line with this, but again, not my point. What I'm wondering is this: Am I seeing some remnant of V2 structure here? It seems like the verb has to be the second piece, after the "not only" phrase, but it just seems right. Any thoughts?

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Shreyas Sampat <ssampat@...>English V2
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