Use of neither/nor with two sentence
Hi everyone,
I wanna say; I invented some gadgets but couldn't patent them and they stayed as blueprints.
but I couldn't form a sentence and I'm frustrated myself. Which sentence should I use?
Exp1: "I couldn’t turn these inventions into reality or I couldn’t patent them."
Exp2: "I couldn’t turn these inventions into reality nor I couldn’t patent them."
Exp3: "Neither I couldn’t turn these inventions into reality nor I couldn’t patent them."
Top answer
None of those are going to work. Here's one that does. It's the simplest way to say what you want to say.
- None of those are going to work.
- Here's one that does.
- It's the simplest way to say what you want to say.
- I couldn't turn these inventions into reality, and I couldn't patent them either.
- If you want 'neither ...
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None of those are going to work. Here's one that does. It's the simplest way to say what you want to say.
I couldn't turn these inventions into reality, and I couldn't patent them either.
If you want 'neither ... nor', you're going to have to make it more formal, and I don't recommend that you do that. It requires a grammatical pattern called "subject-verb inversion
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