Should I use either or or neither nor?

The choice between the correlative conjunctions either … 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.