{"id":74036,"date":"2020-04-16T10:02:35","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T10:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=74036"},"modified":"2024-02-19T09:40:50","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T09:40:50","slug":"nor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/nor\/","title":{"rendered":"Nor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The conjunction\u00a0<b>nor<\/b>\u00a0is mainly used in the correlative pair,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/neither-nor\/\"><b>neither-nor<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>He neither spends his money <strong>nor<\/strong> donates it.<\/li><li>I like neither apples <strong>nor<\/strong> peaches.<\/li><li>I know neither Sam <strong>nor <\/strong>his wife.<\/li><li>He is neither educated <strong>nor<\/strong> hard working.<\/li><li>She neither raised her head <strong>nor<\/strong> spoke a word.<\/li><li>She is neither English <strong>nor<\/strong> French.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Nor <\/strong>can also mean &#8216;also not&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>&#8216;I can&#8217;t speak English.&#8217; &#8216;<strong>Nor <\/strong>can I.&#8217; (Note that we use the inverted word order in this construction.<\/li><li>She didn&#8217;t come, <strong>nor<\/strong> did her mother.<\/li><li>She didn&#8217;t pass the test,<strong> nor<\/strong> did I.<\/li><li>Rahul cannot swim, <strong>nor<\/strong> can Madhav.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>We can use<strong> neither <\/strong>instead of <strong>nor <\/strong>in this construction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>He cannot swim, <strong>neither<\/strong> can I. \/ He cannot swim, nor can I.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/grammar\/nor.htm\">Nor as a conjunction<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Fill in the blanks with either, neither or nor.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1. Meera was not at the party, &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. was Maya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2. She is neither beautiful &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. intelligent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3. She can &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; dance &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. sing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4. She &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. came &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5. &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; Rahul &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. his sister can speak English.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6. I don&#8217;t like him, &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; does my mother. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Answers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>1. nor\/neither, 2. nor, 3. neither, nor, 4. neither, nor, 5. Neither, nor, 6. nor\/neither<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The conjunction\u00a0nor\u00a0is mainly used in the correlative pair,\u00a0neither-nor. He neither spends his money nor donates it. I like neither apples nor peaches. I know neither Sam nor his wife. He is neither educated nor&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[1636,373],"class_list":["post-74036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-neither-nor","tag-nor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74036"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77210,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74036\/revisions\/77210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}