Nor

Which is correct and why? :up:

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Originally Posted by tdol

Which is correct and why? :up:

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Hi;
did they fail:tick: → “nor” is marginal coordinator→we have inversion

they failed:cross: → because of two reasons:1. lexical verb can never appear in the sructure of a “code” ,we need auxiliary.
2.after “nor” we have inversion

All the best,;-)

the correct answer is number 2 because when we use nor we should make inversion so the verb comes befor the subject.

should the answer be "neither did they fail?"

It's an alternative. ;-)

uffaaa:-( , this time I failed...

Better luck next time. ;-)

failed this time,!!!
i voted for the first option..
good luck to me next time :oops: :lol:

is it a negative form of "so did they"?

Nor is a contraction of "and+not+either" think of it in these terms and the answer becomes obvious. You don't use a negative after it because then you would have double negation and it would be out of sync with the first phrase which is a negative sentence. In order to have appropriate parallelism we must choose the second answer as the first answer is incorrect as it does not have the necessary participle.