Term of Art: Correlative

“Correlative: Indicating combined or reciprocal function but not adjacency in the sentence, e.g., the conjunctions ‘not only’ and ‘but,’ ‘neither’ and ‘nor,’ the phrases ‘on the one hand’ and ‘on the other hand.’”

Excerpted from: Grambs, David. The Random House Dictionary for Writers and Readers. New York: Random House, 1990.

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