Correcting Subject-Verb Agreement in Sentences

Easy Usage And Mechanics Sentence Structure

Read the following sentence carefully:

Neither the students nor the teacher were prepared for the test.

Which of the following options corrects the sentence's structure?

Neither the students nor the teacher was prepared for the test.

Neither the teacher nor the students were prepared for the test.

Neither the students nor the teacher are prepared for the test.

Neither the students and the teacher was prepared for the test.

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