{"id":155,"date":"2025-10-08T04:28:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T04:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/school.kanavu.org\/resources\/2025\/10\/08\/neither-the-children-nor-their-father-_-arrived\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T04:28:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T04:28:23","slug":"neither-the-children-nor-their-father-_-arrived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/school.kanavu.org\/resources\/neither-the-children-nor-their-father-_-arrived\/","title":{"rendered":"Neither the children nor their father _ arrived."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>a)have<br>b)has<br>c)are<br>d)is<br><em>The correct answer is: b) has<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Explanation:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The sentence:<\/em> Neither the children nor their father <strong><em>_<\/em><\/strong> arrived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Rule:<\/em> When <em>neither\u2026nor<\/em> * is used, the verb agrees with the noun closest to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here, <em>their father<\/em> is singular (closest to the verb).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, we use the singular verb: <em>has<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Complete sentence:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Neither the children nor their father <em>has<\/em> arrived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a)haveb)hasc)ared)isThe correct answer is: b) has Explanation: The sentence: Neither the children nor their father _ arrived. Rule: When neither\u2026nor * is used, the verb agrees with the noun closest to it. Here, their father is singular (closest to the verb). So, we use the singular verb: has Complete sentence: Neither the children nor their father has arrived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-tips"],"aioseo_notices":[],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Editor","author_link":"https:\/\/school.kanavu.org\/resources\/author\/editor\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/school.kanavu.org\/resources\/category\/daily-tips\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Daily Tips<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"a)haveb)hasc)ared)isThe correct answer is: b) has Explanation: The sentence: Neither the children nor their father _ arrived. Rule: When neither\u2026nor * is used, the verb agrees with the noun closest to it. Here, their father is singular (closest to the verb). So, we use the singular verb: has Complete sentence: Neither the children nor their&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/school.kanavu.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/school.kanavu.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/school.kanavu.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/school.kanavu.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/school.kanavu.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/school.kanavu.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/school.kanavu.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/school.kanavu.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/school.kanavu.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}