How to structure these sentences?
How should I construct these sentences?
- The children did not cry nor [try/tried] to escape.
- She only chuckles, not [laughs/laugh].
- He either does nothing or [cries/cry] over his misery.
- Candy neither looked at him nor [answered/answer].
I fail to understand which verbs are parallel to which, and it's difficult for me to explain what I don't get. Could someone please provide me with explanations for parallel constructions?
Thank you very much.
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Eren8hisfather - The children did not cry nor [try/tried] to escape. - The children did not cry nor try to escape. The coordinating conjunctions (For, and, nor, but, or, so) join equals, in this case, cry and try .
- Eren8hisfather - The children did not cry nor [try/tried] to escape.
- - The children did not cry nor try to escape.
- The coordinating conjunctions (For, and, nor, but, or, so) join equals, in this case, cry and try .
- A coordinating conjunction is a word that joins two elements of equal grammatical rank and syntactic importance.
- They can join two verbs, two nouns, two adjectives, two phrases, or two independent clauses.
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Eren8hisfather- The children did not cry nor [try/tried] to escape.
- The children did not cry nor try to escape.
The coordinating conjunctions (For, and, nor, but, or, so) join equals, in this case, cry and try.
A coordinating conjunction is a word that joins two elements of equal grammatical rank and syntactic importance.
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