Subject-Verb Agreement: Neither/Nor

Hard Usage And Mechanics Grammar And Usage

Read the following sentence:

Neither of the solutions offered by the engineer were adequate for the problem at hand.

Which of the following options corrects the error in the sentence?

Neither of the solutions offered by the engineer was adequate for the problem at hand.

Neither of the solutions offered by the engineers were adequate for the problem at hand.

Neither of the solutions is offered by the engineer adequate for the problem at hand.

Neither of the solutions offered by the engineer are adequate for the problem at hand.

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