# ai-style/negative-parallelism

“Not (only) X but (also) Y”, a signature LLM cadence.

- Default level: `warn`
- Confidence: `medium`
- Evidence source: Dependency graph
- Category: Negative parallelism

Matches grammatical relationships between words, not only their order or part of speech.

[Rule page](https://slopsift.dev/rules/negative-parallelism/)
[Source](https://github.com/NikhilVerma/writinglint/blob/main/packages/rulepack-ai-style/src/rules/negative-parallelism.ts)
[Report a false positive or missed finding](https://github.com/NikhilVerma/writinglint/issues/new?template=false-positive.yml&title=rule%3A%20ai-style%2Fnegative-parallelism)