neither nor coordinating – English Grammar Profiler

There are two overlapping points in the English Grammar Profile at B2 for ‘neither nor’.

Point 104 in CLAUSES & coordinated is defined as:

combine two main clauses of the same type using ‘neither’ in front or mid-position, followed by ‘nor’ to introduce the second clause, for emphasis.

Point 15 in the Conjunctions & coordinating is defined as

‘neither nor’ to connect two words, phrases or clauses, often to give emphasis or focus.

Also, note that ‘neither nor’ is already B2 on the EVP.

neither * * * * nor (clusters with wildcards on iWeb)

NEITHER AN OFFER TO PURCHASE NOR

NEITHER THE UNITED STATES NOR

146

NEITHER THE TIME NOR

773

Because it is easy to find vocabulary that associates with this grammar we can choose B1 examples, just under B2.

iWeb search for neither _v* with verbs as Lemmas:

1 [BE] 51157 2 [DO] 30725 3 [HAVE] 13529 4 [CAN] 8900 5 [WILL] 7626 6 [SHOULD] 4805 8 [WOULD] 3913 9 [COULD] 3144 10 [SHALL] 2409 11 [KNOW] 1613

12 NEITHER CONFIRM1551

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iWeb search for nor _v* with verbs as Lemmas.

1 [NOR] [DO] 114005 2 [NOR] [BE] 105768 3 [NOR] [HAVE] 24787 4 [NOR] [CAN] 22490 5 [NOR] [WILL] 20786 6 [NOR] [SHOULD] 12902 7 [NOR] [WOULD] 11669 8 [NOR] [SHALL] 7036 9 [NOR] [COULD] 6675 10 [NOR] [] 2427 11 [NOR] [MAY] 2397 12 [NOR] [DENY] 2054 13 [NOR] [MAKE] 1784 14 [NOR] [HEAR] 1442 15 [NOR] [TAKE] 1414 16 [NOR] [GIVE] 1284 17 [NOR] [USE] 1225 18 [NOR] [NEED] 1149 19 [NOR] [SEE] 1046 20 [NOR] [WANT] 1018 21 [NOR] [LET] 939

22 [NOR] [KNOW] 898