Select the most appropriate option to improve the underlined segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to improve it, select ‘no improvement required’.
His tone was neither of anger nor sorrow.
Select the most appropriate option to improve the underlined segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to improve it, select ‘no improvement required’.
His tone was neither of anger nor sorrow.
or of sorrow
or of sorrow
or sorrow
or sorrow
no improvement required
no improvement required
nor of sorrow
nor of sorrow
Correct Answer:
nor of sorrow
nor of sorrow
option D is the correct answer here, according to the rule of parellelism
In English grammar, parallelism (also called parallel structure or parallel construction) is the repetition of the same grammatical form in two or more parts of a sentence.
so nor of is the right form to use here
