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Which of the following sentences

uses the correct subject/verb
agreement?
A. Neither Kelly nor her friends see the bear.
B. Neither Kelly nor her friends sees the bear.
C. Either Kelly or her friend see the bear.
D. Either her friend or Kelly see the bear.

2 Answers

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The answer is B. The subject in the sentence is “neither” (not “Kelly” and not “friends”). Neither is a singular subject, so “neither” goes with “sees”. You can just ignore the “Kelly nor her friends” part so that the sentence reads “neither sees the bear.”
User Hemant Aggarwal
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The correct answer is A
User John Dunagan
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