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This tag is for questions about whether something obeys the rules of grammar in English. The question must INCLUDE THE SPECIFIC GRAMMATICAL CONCERN. If your question is about grammar itself, please use the "grammar" tag.
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One of my friends recently argued with me regarding the correctness of the follow statement
It's not a complete sentence since being is a gerund and not serving as a verb.
You could say
Mohit and Sit are cunning.
or
Mohit and Sit are being cunning.
and those would be complete se …
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Can I omit the "neither" in a neither/nor construction?
The neither is required.
Neither ... nor acts as a negation which as you correctly note would otherwise require "did not" (past tense negation in English is a bit verbose).
You could also have writ …
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Can you say "that which" instead of "that that"?
With as much context as you've given, that which is preferable. Of course not every that that can be substituted like this, depending on which that is the conjunction and which is the pronoun.
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