Timeline for Can "neither" be a conjunction by itself?
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| Feb 21, 2022 at 12:39 | vote | accept | Alex Frt | ||
| Feb 21, 2022 at 12:39 | vote | accept | Alex Frt | ||
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| Feb 1, 2022 at 15:24 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | @Ben Bolker Notice that you can't insert and / but / yet / so ... for neither. eg << *The authorities were not sympathetic to the students’ demands, and would they tolerate any disruption. >> // << The authorities were not sympathetic to the students’ demands ... and would they tolerate any disruption? >> changes the sentence structure. | |
| Jan 31, 2022 at 23:06 | comment | added | Ben Bolker | sorry. ", nor" sounds right. ", but nor" and ", and nor" sound unusual. ("but nor" is maybe a little worse than "and nor" ...) | |
| Jan 31, 2022 at 22:54 | comment | added | Alex Frt | @Ben Bolker You said that you find "... were not sympathetic ..., nor would they tolerate ..." wrong or unusual? | |
| Jan 31, 2022 at 19:33 | comment | added | Ben Bolker | "and" and "but" can be used before "neither", I believe (not precisely sure which usages @EdwinAshworth is referring to). "not ..., but neither" or "not ..., and neither" both seem fine to me ("not ..., nor", "not ..., and nor" and "not ..., but nor" seem wrong or at least very unusual) | |
| Jan 31, 2022 at 12:02 | history | edited | Alex Frt | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 31, 2022 at 11:33 | history | edited | Alex Frt | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 28, 2022 at 19:45 | comment | added | Alex Frt | This kind of gets off topic, but, I thought that "and", "but" ... can be used before "neither" (and also before "nor" just in UK) in this type of sentence (... were not sympathetic, ... and/but neither would they tolerate ...) | |
| Jan 28, 2022 at 19:25 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | Notice that you can't insert and / but / yet / so ... for neither. 'Nor' and 'neither' trigger inversion, as do 'seldom' and 'rarely'. The FANBOYS approximation is too imperfect to be retained, and CGEL and ACGEL have alternative analyses. | |
| Jan 28, 2022 at 19:12 | history | edited | Alex Frt | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 28, 2022 at 19:09 | comment | added | Alex Frt | "used like this" means "used after a comma as a conjunction by itself" as in the sentence. | |
| Jan 28, 2022 at 17:26 | comment | added | Ben Bolker | Can you define "used like this" more precisely? | |
| Jan 27, 2022 at 23:01 | answer | added | Ben Bolker | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 27, 2022 at 22:47 | history | asked | Alex Frt | CC BY-SA 4.0 |