Nor

[Tdol]

Which is correct and why?

[1364]

Which is correct and why?

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

they failed → 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,

[balack4u]

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

[Chow1679]

should the answer be "neither did they fail?"

[Tdol]

It's an alternative.

[Isra]

uffaaa , this time I failed...

[JACOOL]

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

[Marcus Aurelius]

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.

[JACOOL]

thanks Marcus

[beastmaster]

second one is true because the answer is simple ---inversion