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Question
Rewrite the following sentence using ‘not only but also’ and ‘as well as’ in 2 seperate sentences.
World Heritage Sites can be a combination of both cultural and natural areas
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Solution
- World Heritage Sites can be a combination of not only cultural but also natural areas.
- World Heritage Sites can be a combination of cultural as well as natural areas.
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