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Neither is your son at school nor is he at home.
Neither is your son at school nor at home.
Neither have I seen a tornado nor have I seen an earthquake.
Neither have I seen a tornado nor an earhquake.
Neither do I study English nor do I study Spanish.
Neither do I study English nor spanish.

2007-09-23 09:36:54 · 7 answers · asked by ili8310230000 1 in Society & Culture Languages

7 answers

Neither is your spanish son's school being destroyed by an earthquake while a tornado wrecks his home nor will you study English.

2007-09-23 09:42:19 · answer #1 · answered by rrbowker2002 3 · 1 0

I would not use any of these - some are grammatically better than others, but they are all ugly sentences. Sentences can rarely begin with "neither" and flow elegantly.

I would suggest in each case:

Your son is neither at school nor at home.
I have seen neither a tornado nor an earthquake.
I study neither English nor Spanish.

2007-09-24 10:43:58 · answer #2 · answered by Bad Liberal 7 · 0 0

Technically the first, third, and fifth are correct, and the others are incorrect because what comes after the "neither" in those sentences is not the same kind of thing as what comes after the "nor", and they should be.

However, the "correct" sentences sound very odd (that's why most of the answerers think they are in fact wrong). It would be far more natural to write:

Your son is neither at school nor at home.
I have seen neither a tornado nor an earthquake. (even that's weird...I'd probably say "I've never seen either a tornado or an earthquake.")
I study neither English nor Spanish.

2007-09-23 17:05:53 · answer #3 · answered by Goddess of Grammar 7 · 0 0

I would write them as:

Your son is neither at school nor at home.
I have neither seen a tornado nor an earthquake.
I study neither English nor Spanish.

2007-09-23 16:44:01 · answer #4 · answered by lilyvera 2 · 0 0

Your son is neither at home nor at school.
I do not study English nor Spanish.

2007-09-23 16:43:56 · answer #5 · answered by howardramclam 2 · 0 0

sentence 2 is fine but not 1...
Sentence 4 is fine but not 3...
Sentence 6 is better than 5...

2007-09-23 16:43:45 · answer #6 · answered by notw777 4 · 0 1

O.K. I checked. What is your question ?

2007-09-23 16:42:34 · answer #7 · answered by woodster 4 · 0 1

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