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Without compromising on neither/either?
In standard English (of whichever part of the English speaking world), explicitly negative words and phrases such as no, none,never, nowhere, neither, and nor cannot be used within the scope of anoth …
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British English / a strange way of using neither nor
Standard Englishes don't allow negative polarity words (none, nowhere, never, neither) to be used with explicit negation (not, isn't).
So your sentence is not grammatical in any standard English. Th …
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Neither or nor in this sentence
If you want to keep that structure, it needs to be
I do not ride a bike. Neither/nor do I ride a horse
with that inversion (do I). The inversion makes it slightly literary in tone, but is requ …
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XXIII, neither IIIXX nor XIIIX, represents 23. Is it correct grammar?
I would say that it is probably grammatical, but because 'neither' is not common introducing a clause like that, it is very confusing: it is not clear on first reading what the relationship is between …
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Why is it "either . . . or" and "neither . . . nor"?
I'm not quite sure what you're asking. Is it why we have negative-polarity terms for both arms of the conjunction? If so, that is something that many languages have, and certainly strikes me as natura …
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