Which one is correct usage of "only" and difference between the following sentences what is point of living if it is only a stuggle. what is point of living if it only is a struggle.
Not only are there students in the room, but also parents. (here, the parents are there part is not quite required, so you don't have to say but parents are also there because it's implied.)
The wording implies that only B matters, not C, D, E, ... "I will help you prepare for the meeting only if you finish your report": This implies that finishing the report is a necessary but not necessarily sufficient condition for me to help you prepare for the meeting.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines but only (which can also occur as only but) as meaning ‘ (a) only, merely; (b) except only’, and comments that its use is now poetical.
Is the meaning of "only that" similar to "unless"? For example: This does not mean that it is freely chosen, in the sense of the autonomous individual, only that there is popular agency in the
I am from Bangalore and people here tend use the word only to emphasise something in a sentence. For example: We are getting that only printed. What is the proper way to put it?
‘Only that’s she’s an expert in her line.’ [Source: From Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest] I wonder if this is grammatically correct (common usage) or a kind of dialect used among English-speaking people. I have searched the similar expression on the Internet. And I found some. So it doesn’t seem to be less frequently used.
For Only in the upper class, the only restricts in the inclusion (in, as opposed to out). But no matter which you restrict, there are only two groups under discussion -- upperclass women and and female commoners.