<p>When a sentence uses "neither...nor..." or "either...or..." and the noun following "neither/either" is plural whereas the noun following "nor/or" is singular, how do we determine if the subject of the sentence is singuler or plural? </p>
<p>Thanks~~~ ^_^</p>
<p>Oh, this is a tricky situation 
it turns out that if you have:</p>
<p>either/neither PLURAL or/nor SINGULAR verb</p>
<p>the VERB is singular!</p>
<p>If you have:</p>
<p>either/neither SINGULAR or/nor PLURAL verb</p>
<p>the VERB is plural!</p>
<p>In other words, whether the verb following either/or or neither/nor is singular or plural depends on whether the SECOND noun is singular or plural. Example:</p>
<p>Neither Adam nor the girls were at the party.
Either my parents or Sara likes cherries more than strawberries.</p>