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“Cannot be null or empty” vs. “cannot be null nor empty” [duplicate]
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Should I use 'or' or 'nor'?
Using “nor” in a list without “neither”
Translating this meaning into English:
There is a value ...
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Do the tug of war rules have a typo? (“Or” vs. “nor”)
The Official Tug of War Rules (link is PDF, here is Google quickview link) say:
The rope must not be less than 10 centimetres (100 mm), or more than
12.5 centimetres (125 mm) in circumference... ...
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Mixing plural and singular list items with a single verb
A friend wants to write,
There is no hardware to purchase, no additional software to install and no key fobs to worry about.
This is awkward because the verb "is" doesn't match up with the third ...
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Use “or” or “nor”?
I've always wondered this but never asked. Given this statement:
Energy can be neither created nor destroyed.
Should it be or or nor? This is on Wikipedia so they are probably correct in saying ...
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Usage of “neither… nor” versus “not … or”
First, this is not a dupe of:
"Not bad either" versus "not bad neither"
nor a dupe of:
"Neither Michael nor Albert is correct" or "Neither Michael nor Albert are ...
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Should I use 'or' or 'nor'?
This document does not cover the SDK interfaces nor any other reference material.
I think the above is correct, but my grammatical checker in Microsoft Word underlines nor and suggests or. Why?
