English Grammar - Conjunction

English Grammar
English Grammar - Conjunction

Select the correct option: Neither the principal investigator ___ the co-authors anticipated the backlash.


Options:

  1. nor
  2. or
  3. and
  4. nor did

Right Answer: nor

English uses fixed correlative conjunction pairs, and 'neither' must always be completed by 'nor'. Since the sentence opens with 'Neither the principal investigator', the blank can only be filled by 'nor', giving the balanced structure 'Neither X nor Y'. Option two is wrong because 'or' pairs with 'either', not with 'neither'. Option three would produce a double negative sense and breaks the correlative pattern entirely. Option four adds the auxiliary 'did', which is used only in inverted constructions such as 'nor did they anticipate', not before a plain noun phrase. Hence the correct answer is nor.

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