Choose the correct option to make one complete sentence without using and, but or so.
Ravi is not a technician. Ravi is not a musician.
Topic: Synthesis — neither... nor
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Pick an option and check your answer. The full worked answer is below either way.
Answer
(b) Ravi is neither a technician nor a musician..
Two NEGATIVE statements about the same subject combine with NEITHER... NOR. "Ravi is neither a technician nor a musician" preserves both meanings exactly.
The correlative pairs to learn as a set, because one of them is examined every year: both... AND (two positives) neither... NOR (two negatives) either... OR (alternatives) not only... BUT ALSO (two positives, with emphasis) Mixing the halves — "neither... or", "both... also" as in option (a) — is the commonest error.
Options (c) and (d) both reverse the meaning by making Ravi one of the two things.
Ravi is neither a technician nor a musician..