Diagramming request

[TheParser]

Could someone please reed-kellogg (let's start a new verb) this sentence: "Tom does not like mushrooms. Nor does Mona." Thanks a lot.

[Frank Antonson]

I like the new verb. You could claim it as your creation.

[Frank Antonson]

Regarding the diagramming, I am too lazy. Sorry.

"Nor" is second part of the correlative conjunction "neither... nor" with the "neither" being understood. The punctuation, that separates the clauses into different sentences, is suspect.

[Kondorosi]

Could someone please reed-kellogg (let's start a new verb) this sentence: "Tom does not like mushrooms. Nor does Mona." Thanks a lot.

TheParser, don't you have a name I could use to address you? Calling someone TheParser is so impersonal.


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Both words comprise two words.

[Kondorosi]

Regarding the diagramming, I am too lazy.

[TheParser]

Many thanks to both of you for your dependable help. I shall study the diagram with great care. You two are really increasing the popularity of Reed-Kelloggism.

[Frank Antonson]

That's nice to hear.

Back to the sentence... I would place "x...nor" on a sloping line connecting the two clauses. The "x" is for the understood "neither". The two together word as a correlative conjunction.

[Kondorosi]

That's nice to hear.

Back to the sentence... I would place "x...nor" on a sloping line connecting the two clauses. The "x" is for the understood "neither". The two together word as a correlative conjunction.

I am going to tell you why I can not relate to this idea. Look at this:

Jane will never compromise with Bill, nor will Bill compromise with Jane.

The correlative 'neither ... nor' joins two clauses together plus it changes their truth values to the opposite. 'never' already negates, so I don't think there is a 'neither' there implicitly to negate the first clause once again.

[Frank Antonson]

You're right. I had not looked back at the original sentence.