neither nor
Both options rejected
Neither nor is a correlative conjunction pair used to negate two or more alternatives: Neither the president nor the vice president attended.
It emphasizes that none of the options apply.
The construction requires parallel elements—what follows neither should match grammatically what follows nor: She neither called nor wrote.
In casual speech, people sometimes use or after neither, but nor remains standard.
- noneNot a single one
- notOpposite of affirmative
- nowhereNot at any place
- nobodyInconsequential person
- no oneZero individuals
null · void · limbo · no man's land · between · in between · middle · neutral · on the fence · undecided · ambivalent · gray area · binary · false dichotomy · choice · exclusive · alternative · negative
- logicpremise, premises, conclusion, conclusions, inference
- conjunctionsand, but, or, for, so
neither noras well as
Indicates inclusion beyond
not only but also · together with · along with · and · or
neither norboth
The two together
each and every · all · one or both · one or the other · either