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Ray wrote:
> FYI, even an American site has a sentence like that:
>
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> Not only will you find the Russian language courses offered listed
> below, but also any special Russian literature and culture classes that
> will be available. These special courses are lectured in English and
> are always a mind-opening experience.
>
> http://www.southalabama.edu/languages/russian/russiancourses.html
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>
> I know the location of the site says nothing about the linguistic
> background of the authorship. That paragraph may or may not have been
> written by a non-native speaker. Is there anything that is particularly
> unidiomatic here that makes you suspect it was written by a non-native
> speaker?
Well, this is clearly advertising rather than serious prose ("always a
mind-opening experience"); the first sentence should be "You will find
not only ... but also," or else "Not only will you find ... but also
you will encounter ..." (correlative clauses must be grammatically
parallel) -- though that's often not observed!
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