You can use either "only when" and "It was only when", both are very similarly used. However there is a subtle difference in the pace/style of the story-telling in both cases. In "Only When", there is a sense of urgency, a slightly more 'involved' writing.

2017年4月13日 · It is only redundant because you misinterpret it. You say it's the same as "only if". But it is not. "Only if", as you say, means "no guarantee he will yell if you fall". The first if provides just that guarantee. In other words, 3 is a combination of 1 and 2, and you simply failed to combine your correct reasoning for 1 and 2 into the correct ...

This is not a special case of but, only or but only. The words but and only mean just the same here as elsewhere in an English sentence. 1 used to introduce a phrase or clause contrasting with what has already been mentioned: he stumbled but didn’t fall

An Ngram chart of "can only do so much" (blue line) versus "can do only so much" (red line) for the period 1850–2005 shows a rather remarkable increase in the frequency of the first expression since about 1970, a period during which the frequency of …

2015年4月8日 · I'd suggest the inversion req'd by "only": Desertion can also be explained by the animalistic nature of soldiers. Only when soldiers confront the face of death do they recognize their own mortality and try to escape the dangers in the battlefield before them. Thyroid Balance: Traditional and Alternative Methods for ...

2016年1月24日 · Some occurrences of 'only ever' from the period 1900–1951. The upsurge in occurrences of "only ever" is quite clearly a phenomenon of the past seventy years, as this Ngram chart for the period 1700–2019 vividly suggests: However, modern use of the expression dates to the early twentieth century at least.

When only after, only if, only in this way etc. are placed at the beginning of the sentence for rhetorical effect, the subject and auxiliary are inverted: Only after lunch can you play. (You can only play after lunch.) Only after finishing your homework can you play. (You can only play after you finish your homework.)

2014年11月28日 · Since this question was asked, a new meaning of 'performative' has become popular: 'done or expressed for the sake of appearance' (OED, dating to 1996 and 2014). This is the opposite meaning from the previous one in philosophy, where 'I …

2018年12月6日 · {combined my comments into an answer: xDD} "He was the first person opening ..." is fine, but if you omit 'person' and expect 'first' to act as a pronoun, you create a garden path because 'the first opening' looks like a noun phrase (!"He was the first opening").

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