[Grammar] He neither drinks nor does he smoke.

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yi-ing

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Hello.

Is it possible to use the sentence below as a parallel structure, if not, how can we fix it?
Personally, I feel that this sentence is not parallel, as each part taken part in parallelism has different grammatical form : verb and clause.

He neither drinks nor does he smoke.


Maybe this sentence is parallel and correct: He neither drinks nor smoke.
 
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He neither drinks nor smokes.
He doesn't drink, nor does he smoke.
 
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He neither drinks nor smokes.
He doesn't drink, nor does he smoke.

Thanks Teechar, so the original sentence is wrong.
 
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No, it's not wrong, but it's not standard.
 
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