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This One Too, That One Too も〜も・でもある

You and your friend both like tea, but neither likes coffee. も can mark both sides of a positive sentence or both sides of a negative one: the same particle, with the verb polarity setting the reading.

The expanded も～ば～も form also means “both…and”: 経験もあれば知識もある, “they have both experience and knowledge.” It uses the ば conditional form as a balanced link, and the second も completes the pair.

Hint · 힌트
寿司も刺身も replaces the plain object marker を entirely, listing two items on completely equal footing, distinct from と, which lists items as a fixed group, “sushi and sashimi” as one set, while も〜も treats each one separately, “sushi, and sashimi too.”
Hint · 힌트
い-adjectives drop い for くも, 美味しい becomes 美味しくも; な-adjectives and nouns take でも, 賑やかでも. Paired with ない at the end and 特に (particularly) up front, this becomes a natural way to describe something as thoroughly unremarkable, neither one extreme nor the other.
Hint · 힌트
Xでも Yでもない rules out two possibilities at once, “it’s neither X nor Y,” often followed by a confident conclusion about what it must be instead, pairing naturally with はず, which you already know.

To add another fact across sentences, また works like “moreover / also.” And for a more formal “is also” with nouns or な-adjectives, use でもある; in a balanced list, use でもあり before the second item.

In Real Life
また is handy when you want to add a second point in a presentation or explanation. でもある is more compact and formal when naming two roles or qualities of the same person or thing.

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