Identify the error: Neither the doctor nor the nurses was available.

  • A. Neither should be Either
  • B. nor should be or
  • C. was should be were
  • D. There is no error

Explanation

With neither nor the verb agrees with the nearer subject, which here is nurses, so the plural were is required. Reversing the two nouns would make was correct instead. Neither is always paired with nor and either with or, so the first two options are wrong on their own terms.

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