Which is the best?
1. Neither the students nor the class teacher are not happy with the examination results.
2. Neither the students nor the class teacher is not happy with the examination results.
3. Neither the class teacher nor the students are not happy with the examination results.
If all the sentences are grammatical and acceptable, which is the best? Thanks in advance.
Top answer
They are all wrong, I'm afraid. #1 and #3 would be correct if you delete 'not'.
- They are all wrong, I'm afraid.
- #1 and #3 would be correct if you delete 'not'.
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They are all wrong, I'm afraid.
#1 and #3 would be correct if you delete 'not'.
0Using "agreement by proximity", as is usually done for the "neither ... nor ..." construction in formal writing, we have
Neither the students nor the teacher is happy ...
Neither the teacher nor the students are happy ...
Less formally, we can use the plural verb in this construction in all cases.
As already mentioned above, you must rem
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