GMAT verbal guide

[nrohatgi]

Contrary to popular opinion, the war on terrorism is leading neither to better times for investing, more of a relaxed sense of national security.

Are the following 2 both correct:
a) same
b) neither leading to better times for investion nor to more relaxed sense of national security.
c)..
d)..
e)..

However, if instead of (b) it was something like this :
f) leading neither to better times for investion nor to more relaxed sense of national security.

If you look at (f) above we have "neither X nor Y" which is parallel , however (b) "neither leading X nor Y" is also parallel correct?, the additional "leading" does not destroy parallelism.

I have a huge confusion if "neither leading" OR "leading neither" makes any difference as long as the rest of the sentence is parallel.

[dbernst]

nrohatgi,

Depending on context, "neither" can come before of after "leading" (or a similar verb). Thus, additional errors would exist in such a GMAT answer choice in order to eliminate it. However, perhaps you copied the two answer choices incorrectly, as neither one provided is grammatically correct. Answer choice A (the original sentence as written) does not include the "nor" in neither/nor construction; answer choice B incorrectly eliminates the "a" prior to "more relaxed sense of national security."

dan