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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

what is the parrallel structure of this sentence?

Neither pesticides nor hormones are used in the production of organic foods.
  

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By rule, neither and either are considered singular pronouns. Anonymous Neither pesticides nor hormones are used in the production of organic foods. I am not exactly what you meant by parallel structure.

— Dimsumexpress

  • By rule, neither and either are considered singular pronouns.
  • Anonymous Neither pesticides nor hormones are used in the production of organic foods.
  • I am not exactly what you meant by parallel structure.
  • But we can also express: " Either pesticide or hormone is used in our production of organic foods".
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By rule, neither and either are considered singular pronouns.
Anonymous Neither pesticides nor hormones are used in the production of organic foods.
I am not exactly what you meant by parallel structure. But we can also express: " Either pesticide or hormone
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AnonymousNeither pesticides nor hormones
There is only this.

pesticides is "parallel" to hormones.

CJ
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dimsumexpress neither and either are considered singular pronouns
...except when they function as determiners or, functioning as pronouns, refer back to a plural nouns. Both the following are correct in British English:

Neither pesticides nor hormones are used in the production of organic foods. Neither are considered healthy.
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