NEGATIVE CLAUSE + nor | neither – English Grammar Profiler
Here are two overlapping C2 grammar points in the English Grammar Profile.
Point 129 in CLAUSES/coordinated is defined as:
combine a negative clause with an inverted clause with ‘nor’, to give focus.
Point 25 in CONJUNCTIONS/coordinating is defined as:
‘Neither’ or ‘Nor’ + inverted auxiliary or ‘be’ + subject to add to a previous related negative clause, to focus on an additional negative factor.
We can start by searching in iWeb for:
nor _V _P
*note that many of these are short responses to what someone else has said. For example. “I don’t dance. Neither do I.“
1 NOR IS IT 25287
His name is none of my business, nor is it any of yours.
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2 NOR DOES IT 20166 3 NOR DO I 15333 4 NOR DO THEY 11467 5 NOR DO WE 7714 6 NOR ARE THEY 7696 7 NOR DID HE 5556 8 NOR AM I 5168 9 NOR DID I 4997 10 NOR WAS IT 4721 11 NOR WILL IT 4495 12 NOR HAVE I 4459 13 NOR DOES HE 4095 14 NOR DID THEY 3981 15 NOR DID IT 3383 16 NOR CAN IT 3124
17 NOR DO YOU 3050
18 NOR SHOULD IT 3049
1 , AND NOR SHOULD IT BE . 21 2 BE , NOR SHOULD IT BE CONSTRUED 17 3 NOT , NOR SHOULD IT BE , 17 4 INTENDED , NOR SHOULD IT BE CONSTRUED 14 5 ADVICE , NOR SHOULD IT BE RELIED 13 6 NOT INTENDED NOR SHOULD IT BE CONSTRUED 12 7 . NOR SHOULD IT BE FORGOTTEN 8 8 TO BE NOR SHOULD IT BE RELIED 8 9 BE , NOR SHOULD IT BE , 7
10 EASY , NOR SHOULD IT BE . 7
19 NOR WILL THEY 2806 20 NOR CAN THEY 2787 21 NOR CAN WE 2684 22 NOR CAN I 2503 23 NOR WOULD I 2461 24 NOR WILL I 2374 25 NOR CAN YOU 2365 26 NOR ARE WE 2346 27 NOR IS HE 2319 28 NOR SHOULD THEY 2181 29 NOR WAS HE 2059
30 NOR WILL YOU 2049
A2 vocabulary is the highest in the first 100 clusters from ‘nor’ = B2 in EVP
anyone (8) could (7) must (1) serve (1) shall (6) should (9)
were (2)
1 NEITHER IS IT 3123 2 NEITHER DO I 2039
3 NEITHER SHOULD YOU 1453
I will never grant them that satisfaction and neither should you.
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4 NEITHER DO WE 1436 5 NEITHER DOES IT 1382 6 NEITHER DO THEY 1317 7 NEITHER DO YOU 1131 8 NEITHER ARE THEY 1016 9 NEITHER DID I 911 10 NEITHER AM I 847 11 NEITHER DID HE 829 12 NEITHER CAN WE 794 13 NEITHER DOES HE 666 14 NEITHER CAN YOU 643 15 NEITHER ARE WE 622 16 NEITHER ARE YOU 595 17 NEITHER SHOULD WE 577 18 NEITHER WAS IT 568 19 NEITHER WILL YOU 568 20 NEITHER IS HE 525 21 NEITHER WILL I 497 22 NEITHER DID THEY 490 23 NEITHER HAVE I 460 24 NEITHER CAN THEY 437 25 NEITHER CAN IT 424 26 NEITHER CAN I 418 27 NEITHER DID WE 405 28 NEITHER WILL THEY 385
29 NEITHER WILL IT 367