Find out whether there is any grammatical error in below sentence. He loved / none but / his neighbour’s daughter.

He loved
none but
his neighbour's daughter
No error

The sentence “He loved none but his neighbour’s daughter” is grammatically correct. The word “none” is a negative pronoun, and the word “but” is a conjunction that introduces a negative clause. The sentence means that he loved no one but his neighbor’s daughter.

The sentence

could be rewritten as “He loved only his neighbor’s daughter.”
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