Fill in the blank with the correct form of verb: Neither you nor she…
2022
Fill in the blank with the correct form of verb:
Neither you nor she ............ made the mistake.
- A.
have
- B.
has
- C.
had
- D.
did
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Correct answer: B
The complete sentence is: "Neither you nor she has made the mistake."
Grammatical Rule (Proximity Rule): In English, when using correlative conjunctions such as "neither...nor" or "either...or", the verb must agree with the subject that is closest to it.
Application: In the sentence "Neither you nor she," the two subjects are "you" and "she." Since "she" is the subject immediately preceding the verb blank and is a third-person singular pronoun, it requires the singular verb form "has" to maintain subject-verb agreement.