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The composite conjunction (складений сполучник) та й
is used mainly in the copulative function, denoting the transfer to
some action which either finishes the development of events or
intervenes in it. For example: Ото дививсь Івасик, дививсь, та й
заболіла голова (П. Тичина).
The copulative-negative meaning (єднально-заперечний
зв'язок) is formed in the English language with the help of
negative conjunctions neither, nor, not only... but; in Ukrainian
— ні..., ні...; ані..., ані ...; не тільки ..., а (але) і (й). Compare:
Mrs. Septimus small let fall no word, neither did she
question June about him (J. Galsworthy).
She would not put him off; nor would she make a scene in
public (J. Galsworthy).
Ніде ні собака не гавкне, ні вартових немає (Ю.
Янковський).
Ані шелесту не було чути, ані колихання не було
помітно (Марко Вовчок).
The Ukrainian conjunction не тільки ..., а (але) і (й) has
as its correspondence close in the meaning the English
conjunction not only ... but, which shows that the action in the
second sentence goes in parallel with the first sentence and does
not contradict it. Compare:
He тільки жайворонки нас, мене й товаришів, вітали,
але й гречки в той само час рожевим гомоном співали (М.
Рильський).
And Germany had not only violated the Treaty of London,
but she had seized a British ship on the Kiel Canal (H. Wells).
The negative conjunctions in English neither ... nor and in
Ukrainian ні ...ні, ані ...ані are antonyms to the English
conjunction both ... and and the Ukrainian conjunction як ..., так
і, which in both languages are more widely used in a simple
sentence with homogeneous members (однорідними членами)
but sometimes also join parts of the compound sentence, for

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