Join the following sentences to make one complete sentence without using and, but or so.
We are not allowed to play in the sun. We are not allowed to play in the rain.
Topic: Synthesis — neither... nor
Answer
We are allowed to play neither in the sun nor in the rain. (Also acceptable: We are not allowed to play either in the sun or in the rain.)
Two NEGATIVE statements about the same subject combine with NEITHER... NOR.
Watch what happens to the negative. The original says "are NOT allowed" twice; in the combined form the negation is carried entirely by "neither... nor", so "not" DISAPPEARS — "We are allowed to play NEITHER in the sun NOR in the rain". Writing "are not allowed to play neither" would be a double negative.
The alternative keeps the negative and uses "either... or" instead. Both are correct; mixing them is not.
Note the PARALLELISM: "in the sun" and "in the rain" must both keep their preposition. Writing "neither in the sun nor the rain" is acceptable but less balanced.