2011年6月16日 · You need to either use a negative verb ("cannot"), or use neither/nor. Using the two together, like what that editor did to your post in TeX, is incorrect. I can find the tool neither in the kitchen nor the bathroom. I can't find the tool either in the kitchen or the bathroom. I can't find the tool neither in the kitchen nor the bathroom.

The NOAD defines nor as:. used before the second or further of two or more alternatives (the first being introduced by a negative such as neither or not) to indicate that they are each untrue or each do not happen: they were neither cheap nor convenient | the sheets were never washed, nor the towels, nor his shirts.

“Neither the Russians nor the Americans were ready to talk” is perfectly correct, but so is “Neither a British flag nor an American one flies above the pole.” The controversial case is disparate numbers where you actually have to check which part falls next to the verb, as in “Neither all the troops nor one general is ready” versus ...

2013年2月6日 · Some people will insist that correct usage insists that neither can only be used with two items. I am not one of those people, and I consider that sentence perfectly good. Kipling wasn't one of those people either: But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth,

2023年10月24日 · Neither/nor. Neither is used as a conjunction. This structure, “neither/nor”, is used to connect the same kind of word or phrase in the sentence. Neither makes a negative statement about two people or things. Example Sentences: Neither he nor his friends came back. Neither pen nor pencil can express. We can neither change nor improve it.

2021年11月26日 · "Neither my mother nor I was conscious of rudeness" "Neither my mother nor I were conscious of rudeness" I thought it was the latter, but the grammar checker I use isn't picking up the first sentence as a mistake.

2021年1月11日 · Correct constructions using neither include: Neither a nor b: This is the most common usage. Neither Alaska nor Florida charges state income tax. Neither noun: You can use this variant when it's clear what you are referring to. I moved from Alaska to Florida this year. Fortunately, neither state charges income tax.

2015年3月17日 · In particular, this question is not about which verb to use in the neither/nor sentence but about whether the other (first) sentence is acceptable. To be sure, the doubt is whether it is correct to use a compound subject (John and Mary) to talk about features that are essentially individual (John is not tall and Mary is not tall).

Neither the first nor the second version of the original, written in Latin - the language of science at the time - have/has survived until our time Or should I use plural for versions? Neither the first nor the second versions of the original, written in Latin - the language of science at the time - have/has survived until our time

2015年7月13日 · But neither is a conjunction. It signals independence or equal weight, unlike nor, which suggests dependency when on it's own. Legalese tends to lean heavily towards the idea of making each statement either strictly independent or clearly dependent. Neither helps with the former, but I'm not sure nor is sufficient to manage the later. "Neither ...