我认为你的看法是正确的,因为在这个结构中, not only 和 but 后面应该接对等的结构。
Original text:
These peculiar forms not only seemed designed to shock people emotionally, but to give them electric shocks as well!
我认为 not only 的位置不对,应该改为:
These peculiar forms seemed designed not only to shock people emotionally, but to give them electric shocks as well!
to shock..., to give... 并列
请帮忙确认,我的理解是否有错,谢谢!
not only...but also... 及其各种变体,不仅可以连接各种对等成分,还可以连接两个并列分句。你这个例句就是连接两个并列分句,第二个句子承前省略相同的成分。补全的话:These peculiar forms not only seemed designed to shock people
emotionally, but they seemed designed to give them electric shocks as well!
我们日常见到的 not only...but also... 及其各种变体连接的两个并列分句,大多是 not only 位于句首,第一个分句局部倒装(第二分句不倒装)的形式:Not
only did these peculiar forms seem designed to shock people emotionally, but to
give them electric shocks as well!
最新出炉的外刊例句,你可尝试补全省略的内容,再变为倒装句,巩固一下这个知识点:As a result, Europe’s largest economy not
only faces a rethink about how much it needs to invest in defence, but an
equally difficult economic reckoning.