"both the animate and inanimate" is a grammatically correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to distinguish between living beings (animate) and non-living objects (inanimate). Example: The zoo's exhibit showcases both the animate and inanimate elements of the African savanna, including a variety of animals and replica baobab trees.
Crucially, default trials always depicting the same static character of a standing person were randomly intermingled with the dynamic trials in both animate and inanimate sessions, so as to assess persistent influences of the animate and inanimate contexts.
The distance between the animate and inanimate diminishes daily.
Lavoisier and other physical scientists began to connect the animate and inanimate worlds through physics and chemistry.
The animate and inanimate, however, are not so neatly segregated as one might think in this guide for the perplexed to the modern university.
Canguilhem's definition of health, or rather of normality, includes the animate and inanimate environment, as well as the physical, mental, and social dimensions of human life.
Many have commented on the excellence of the pacing (you're always on the hook) and on the inventiveness with which Collins devises the obstacles — both animate and inanimate, and a few things in between — that challenge Katniss and her fellow contestants as they play a gladiatorial, televised game whose point is to defeat one's opponents by killing them and so be the last person standing.
"The world, both animate and inanimate, is sustained by food.
His approach was to use an analogy with a ship: he urges us to consider the behaviour of objects, both animate and inanimate, inside the cabin of a ship, and claims that no experiments carried out inside the cabin, without reference to anything outside the ship, would enable us to tell whether the ship is at rest or moving smoothly across the surface of the Earth.
The mathematician, moonlighting as an alchemist, turned things both animate and inanimate into different substances.
The sun goddess Amaterasu Ōmikami and other creator spirits, illustrious ancestors, and both animate and inanimate things, such as plants, rocks, birds, beasts, and fish, may all be treated as kami.
Broader application of this approach to both animate and inanimate objects is possible.
