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Slide bee 863 Posted 6 years ago
Grammar

Sentence Correction?

Hi. Could you help me with this sentence, please?

"These girls are made to neither be loved nor undertood".

Is the use of neither nor correct?

Thank you in advance!

  

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" It is correct English with the typo fixed, but the meaning seems unusual. More context would be helpful.

— GPY

  • " It is correct English with the typo fixed, but the meaning seems unusual.
  • More context would be helpful.
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slide bee 863"These girls are made to neither be loved nor understood."

It is correct English with the typo fixed, but the meaning seems unusual. More context would be helpful.

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slide bee 863Is the use of neither nor correct?

It may be considered correct, but I can't say that I like it much at all. I think you should change it thus:

... made neither to be loved nor to be understood.

I'll assume you know it doesn't have the same meaning as the Wilde quote.

CJ

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