The conjunction nor is still in use, but it is becoming less common. So it might feel a bit odd when nor does come up in speech or writing. The most common use of nor is in the correlative pair, neither-nor. He neither smokes nor drinks. He is neither rich nor handsome. She is neither industrious nor intelligent. We can use nor to mean ‘also not’. In this usage, it comes at the beginning of a …
Neither means not one nor the other of two. It is followed by a singular noun and verb. Neither shirt looks good on you. Neither statement is true. Neither of Before a determiner (articles, possessives and distributives) or a personal pronoun, we use neither of. Neither of my parents lives with me. Neither of my …
Study the pair of sentences given below. I had never tasted wine. And my brother had never tasted wine. We can express the same idea in another way. I had never tasted wine. Nor had my brother. Exercise Rewrite in the short form, with nor, the second sentence of each pair below. 1. My father …
