vlk, @grammargirl Help, please, to find examples of and to explain the "Y, but Y" rhetorical construction!
I had a sentence in a newsletter saying how someone was not getting enough credit for work when *** all, but all, *** of what we do now is based on their work. But it was unfamiliar to the editor, a native English speaker! I couldn't explain the reasoning behind it other than that I could swear it was widely used! I tried to search for examples, but it is hard to know what to search for.
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