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Persian Learner Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

Either/Nor?

Hi.

1) Tom wouldn’t forgive Jenny if she told everyone his secret, and nor would I.
2) Tom wouldn’t forgive Jenny if she told everyone his secret, and wouldn’t I either.
3) Tom wouldn’t forgive Jenny if she told everyone his secret, and I wouldn't either.

All correct?
  

Top answer

1 and 3 are correct. 2 is not correct.

— Vic Z

  • 1 and 3 are correct.
  • 2 is not correct.
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1 and 3 are correct. 2 is not correct.
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Persian LearnerAll correct?
Only 3) is clearly correct. Though some accept "and nor", I don't. To me "nor" between clauses means "and ... not", so "and nor" means "and and ... not". Therefore I would judge 1) as incorrect. 2) is clearly wrong. It contains no clause-initial negative to justify the subject-verb inversion.

CJ
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How about this one?

Tom wouldn’t forgive Jenny if she told everyone his secret, nor would I.


100% correct?
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Persian LearnerHow about this one?Tom wouldn’t forgive Jenny if she told everyone his secret, nor would I. 100% correct?
Yes. 100%

CJ
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No. There's a comma splice there, in my opinion.
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fivejedjonNo. There's a comma splice there, in my opinion.
"Nor" is a coordinating conjunction. So there is no comma splice.

Coordinating conjunctions, also called coordinators, are conjunctions that join, or coordinate, two or more items (such as words, main clauses, or sentences) of equal syntactic importance. In English, the mnemonic acronym FANBO
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For many speakers of BrE, nor, yet and so are not central coordinating conjunctions, When they link two clauses, we use 'and' before them.
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