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Which is grammatically correct? I can only do so much in this time. Or i can do only so much in this time.
In general, only and but only are not substitutable. *they but only work that way occasionally. The oxford english dictionary defines but only (which can also occur as only but) as meaning ‘ (a) only, merely; (b) except only’, and comments that its use is now poetical.
