Correcting Subject-Verb Agreement in Compound Subjects

Hard Standard English Conventions Sentence Structure

Read the following sentence:

Neither the professor nor the students is willing to compromise on the strict deadlines set for the project.

Which of the following options corrects the sentence structure?

Neither the professor nor the students are willing to compromise on the strict deadlines set for the project.

Neither the professor nor the students is willing to compromise on the strict deadlines that was set for the project.

Neither the professor nor the students, is willing to compromise on the strict deadlines set for the project.

Neither the professor and the students is willing to compromise on the strict deadlines set for the project.

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