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Avangi Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Re: Help with a negative form

To my ear as a native speaker, this is perfectly idiomatic. It is the way I would say it.
  

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Edit. Dang! Sorry about that!

  • Edit.
  • Dang!
  • Sorry about that!
  • I'd say, "Unfortunately, neither we, nor anyone"
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Edit. Dang! Sorry about that! Emotion: embarrassed I'd say, "Unfortunately, neither we, nor anyone"
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Edit.

In your version, you'd need to say, "Unfortunately we, and everyone from our group of friends, didn't see etc." which is why the negative works less awkwardly with "neither - - - nor."

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