When you add sugar to it, your cup of coffee becomes not only sweet, also flattening.

Which word is not grammatically used in this sentence ?

3 answers

What does the sweetened coffee flatten? The word is not the correct word.
The words after the comma should be "but fattening."
......your cup of coffee not only becomes sweet, but also flattening.

or
.......your cup of coffee becomes not only sweet, but also flattening.