"Neither of the two brought his lunch." Is this a grammatically correct sentence?

Question

Explain why or why not.

Answer 1

No, it is missing the beginning of the sentence.
Christina

Answer 2

It is grammatically correct if you are saying that neither of the two brought his lunch. Example: There are two women and one little boy. Neither of the women remembered to pack a lunch for the little boy. Therefore, neither of the two brought his lunch. If you are trying to say that there are two people and neither of them brought a lunch, then you would say "Neither of the two brought their lunch."
Kinda confusing, but yeah.

Answer 3

The correct sentence is: Neither brought his lunch. Even though the word "neither" implies more than one, it in itself is a singular word, so "his" is more correct than "their". Usually "neither" implies only 2 of something, so it's not necessary to say "of the two". That's already implied. Had there been more than 2, you would say "No one brought his lunch", or, had the lunchless once been a mixture of males and females, you would say "No one brought their lunch."

Answer 4

yes it is correct. at first glance it looks wrong, but it would be right if put in the right context. If it were in a story, for example, it could be: The two didn't plan on eating while on stake-out. As usual, Tom thought Jack would bring his lunch, but he was mistaken. Neither of the two brought his lunch.
In authoring a book, it would certainly be correct. It is a bit clumsy, but I still think it's correct, or maybe I'm just a trouble-maker! lol

Answer 5

I've heard it.

However, I'd think it's redundant. "Neither brought his lunch" or "neither of them brought his lunch" would be better in my humble opinion..:-)

Now, if you're talking about two men, the use of "his" is correct. If it's two women it should be "her".

The singular pronoun is used because it refers to "neither", not to "two".

Neither requires the verb in the singular also. If you said that sentence in the Present, you'd say "Neither BRINGS".. (one person).

When there's a man and a woman or when you don't know who they are, the use or "their" has become very common. I frankly don't know how correct this is.
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Answer 6

"His" is singular possessive so you must use a singular noun (boy = his lunch; boys = their lunch). When you use "Neither" it is apparent that you mean more than one - comparative - so you don't necessarily need the number. "Neither" is an adjective - it modifies a noun. There are many ways to convey the meaning, but it would probably be best to say it this way:

"Neither brought their lunch." OR
"Neither of the two brought their lunch." OR
"None of the boys brought their lunch." OR
"Neither boy brought his lunch."

Hope this helps.

Answer 7

Yes. It's correct. There is a temptation for people to say "their" instead of "his", but that would be incorrect. "His" refers back to the subject "Neither" and agrees with it in number. They are both singular. "of the two" is just a prepositional phrase modify the subject but is not a part of the subject and does not make the word "Neither" a plural. The sentence would work fine without it : "Neither brought his lunch."

Answer 8

Yes, it's correct. If you take out the prepositional phrase, it becomes "Neither brought his lunch," which is a perfectly good sentence with a subject and verb.

Answer 9

Of the two,neither brought their lunch...Correct structure.

Answer 10

yes, if yo are saying that neither of two people brought lunch for him ...indicating a third person who is a male...then yes this sentence is correct

Answer 11

I assume you mean brought as in bring and not bought as in buy.

You should say 'Neither of the two brought their lunch.'

This is because there are two of them, which is plural. If there were three you would say 'None of the three brought their lunch.'

Note that lunch is singular because each person is singular, Collectively they are plural but if you said 'lunches' it would seem that each person had more than one lunch.