SAT Grammar Qns

[ccef]

Neither Ms Perez nor Ms Tanaka believes that watching as much television as her son Sam does will lead to anything productive. 1a) In this case, the verb "believes" just has to agree with the noun after "nor" which is Ms Tanka, why doesn't the rest of the sentence including "her son" just follow and agree with Ms Tanka, but instead has to specify Ms Tanka or Ms Perez? 1b) If it was say "....Mr Perez nor Ms Tanaka..." could we then use "their son"?

 

[Barb_D]

Welcome to the forums.


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Please create separate threads for each question and then delete all but the first question here.

I'm sure people will be happy to help you tackle these one by one.