The correct form of the correlative conjunction is neither … nor(e.g., “We have neither the capitalnor the name recognition to expand into a new market”). “Or” is never used with “neither.”
A QuillBot Grammar Check can help ensure you’re using correlative conjunctions and negatives like “neither … nor” correctly.
The choice between the correlative conjunctionseither … or and neither … nor depends on your intended meaning.
Use either … or when you want to present two options (e.g., “We can either go out to eat or order in”).
Use neither … nor when you want to express that two things are not true or did not happen (e.g., “We neither ate nor slept on the flight”).
When there is already a negative (e.g., “not,” “never “) in your sentence, use “or” to avoid a double negative (e.g., “We did not eat or sleep on the flight”).
The QuillBot Grammar Checker can help ensure you’re using correlative conjunctions correctly.
Simple and compound sentences differ in their number of independent clauses (i.e., a group of words with a subject and verb that can stand on its own as a sentence).
Simple sentences have one independent clause. For example: “Jack went shopping.”
Note that simple sentences can have compound subjects (e.g., “Jack and Lucy went shopping”) or compound predicates (e.g., “Jack went shopping and cooked dinner”) or both (e.g., “‘Jack and Lucy went shopping and cooked dinner”).
A compound sentence, in contrast, is formed when two full simple sentences are connected.
Use QuillBot’s Grammar Checker to make sure the types of sentences you’re using are structured correctly.
