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<li><p>Is not only always followed by*but also[/]? </p></li>
<li><p>In the improving paragraph section, when making a decision between revising sentences, the tense should always match the entire passage, right?</p></li>
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<p>Thanks in advance!</p>
<p>For your “not only … but also” question, the answer is mostly yes. There are times when you can choose to leave out the “also” or even the “but also”. In the latter case it would be implied. What is more important in the SAT than the “not only” and “but also” match is that the clauses that follow “not only” and “but also” are parallel – e.g. verb clause and verb clause, adjective and adjective, noun and noun, etc. The SAT questions that I recall test for the parallel construction.</p>
<p>You second question is very general. Perhaps you can provide an example or two of what you mean.</p>
<p>The second is not necessarily true. I once held the same belief, only to get a bunch of questions wrong. Actually those laws in ISE and IS are just not so strictly obeyed in IP. You have to have a more holistic feeling for those answer choices in IP</p>