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"Or" or "Nor"

by dongkim2 » Sat Mar 27, 2010 11:43 pm
One report concludes that many schools do not have, or likely to have, enough computers to use them effectively.

o or
o nor
o or are
o nor are they
o nor are not


OA: D

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by neoreaves » Sun Mar 28, 2010 12:49 am
the question tests parallelism and use of nor/or. I agree we should use nor however, i think you missed the parrallelism part......to keep parts parallel we cant just have "nor" we need "nor are " because it is parallel with "many schools do not have "
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by grockit_andrea » Sun Mar 28, 2010 6:21 am
I agree. And (maybe this goes without saying, but I figured I'd throw it out there anyway) of the two "nor are" choices provided, E can be eliminated because "nor are not" is a double negative.
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