Question

Select the more effective use of correlative conjunctions to join these sentences.

This award is given to junior high students. It is given to senior high students, too.

This award is given to both junior high and senior high students.
This award is given to junior high and senior high students.

Answer 1

"This award is given to both junior high and senior high students."

Why: "both ... and" is the correct correlative conjunction pair here and makes the two items parallel and explicitly inclusive. The version without "both" is grammatical but less emphatic and less clearly balanced.