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Newguest Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Neither/nor

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Is the sentence below correct?

I don't have a car, nor do I have a bike or a motorbike.
  

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No, you can't use "nor" and "or" in the same sentence. Say: I have neither a car, a motorbike nor a bike.

— Anonymous

  • No, you can't use "nor" and "or" in the same sentence.
  • Say: I have neither a car, a motorbike nor a bike.
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No, you can't use "nor" and "or" in the same sentence.
Say: I have neither a car, a motorbike nor a bike.
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AnonymousNo, you can't use "nor" and "or" in the same sentence. Say: I have neither a car, a motorbike nor a bike.
I don't agree with this. I think the original sentence is correct.
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I don't have a car; nor do I have a bike or (a) motorbike.

That's OK.

I have neither a car, a motorbike nor a bike.

Some people consider that to be incorrect. They say that we use neither ... nor only when we ar
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GPYI don't agree with this. I think the original sentence is correct.
Really! Well then can you please explain why? Forgive me if I am wrong. The traditional grammar wisdom says that we either use " either/ or", or " neither /nor" patern in sentences as taught in grade schools. Maybe I can learn something new today.....
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fivejedjonI don't have a car; nor do I have a bike or (a) motorbike.
Opinions may vary on this, but I would say that the original sentence was correctly punctuated.
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This thread got me curious and something intriguing came out of my web-digging. It seems that I was correct with my comment about using "nor" and "or" in the same sentence, but I must repeat the "nor" with each item. Also, if this website is true, we were all incorrect. :ht
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ozzourti Opinions may vary on this, but I would say that the original sentence was correctly punctuated.
My own opinion on that varies from one minute to the next. My choice of the semi colon was related to my thinking of I don't have a car X I don't have a bike either, in which X cannot be a comma. I thought when I submitted my post, and still do to s
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Anonymousif this website is true, we were all incorrect.
Which words do you think suggest that GPY and I were incorrect in accepting the original sentence? Ozzourti and I have different opinions about the punctuation, but that does not affect the wording of the sentence itself.
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AnonymousReally! Well then can you please explain why? Forgive me if I am wrong. The traditional grammar wisdom says that we either use " either/ or", or " neither /nor" patern in sentences as taught in grade schools. Maybe I can learn something new today.....
Substitute X = "a bike or a motorbike" into "I don't have a car, nor do I have X".
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NewguestI don't have a car, nor do I have a bike or a motorbike.
Perfectly fine. I agree with the others, not the anonymous poster.

"Nor" is a coordinating conjunction for the entire clause. Within the clause, the compound direct object is at a different syntactic level.

I don't have a car, nor do I have a bike, a moped, a segway, a horse or
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