neither/nor.......................not/nor

[goelmohit2002]

Hi All,

Although the correct idioms in GMAT are "neither...nor" and "not...nor"....Somewhere I read that even the following are acceptable in GMAT:

a) Neither (A or B).....nor C
b) Not(A or B).....nor C

Can someone please tell is this correct ? If yes, can someone please point me to a question(s) that test this concept ?

Many thanks
Mohit

[kartik1979]

i have aslo read the same in same post , i think it was in website beat the gmat or in grammer notes floating in net

[RonPurewal]

Hi All,

Although the correct idioms in GMAT are "neither...nor" and "not...nor"....Somewhere I read that even the following are acceptable in GMAT:

a) Neither (A or B).....nor C
b) Not(A or B).....nor C

Can someone please tell is this correct ? If yes, can someone please point me to a question(s) that test this concept ?

Many thanks
Mohit

i think there are acceptable constructions involving this sort of thing, but only if there's some additional word (preposition, verb, etc) that marks off "A or B" in some way. i.e., if A, B, and C are just parallel structures, with no sort of rhetorical grouping or distinction in the sentence, then you wouldn't want to do this.

e.g.:
you can write
[i]james works neither in australia nor in korea or japan.
notice that "korea or japan" (the "A or B" in this sentence) is blocked off by the preposition "in". also, there's a rhetorical grouping: korea and japan are asian countries (so it makes sense to group them together), while australia is not (and is hence separated from the other two).