both … and
Together, not separately
Both … and links two items to emphasize their joint inclusion: Both the president and the vice president attended.
It stresses that each element applies, not just one or the other.
The construction works with nouns, verbs, adjectives, or clauses: She was both intelligent and kind, He both wrote and directed the film.
- not only … but alsoAdditive emphasis connector
- conjunctionWord joining clauses together
- correlativeMutually dependent counterpart
- inclusionBeing made part
- simultaneityState of coexisting temporally
parallelism · mutuality · linking · duality · pairing · hand in hand · at the same time · coordinating · emphasis · symmetry · equivalence · all or nothing · sentence structure · clarity · reinforcement · syntax · interrelation · in addition to
logical inclusion vs. exclusion
both … andeither … or
Phrase presenting two alternatives
neither … nor · one or the other · either/or · exclusively · alternatively