<p>TO the disappointment of the crowd, NEITHER the president nor ANY of his aides WERE able to attend the ceremony. NO ERROR</p>
<p>The answer is WERE. supposed to be was...y?</p>
<p>I thought that depends on what is before that matters. HIS AIDES are plural so...</p>
<p>When facing neither or either questions like these, there has to be a subject-verb agreement. Lemme give you some examples.
1). Either Kyle or Trisha is managing the crew.
2). Kyle and Trisha are managing the crew.
3). Neither Kyle nor Trisha is managing the crew.
These examples are all grammatically correct. So for your questions it says neither the president nor any of his aides were able to…according the examples I gave you, it should be neither the president nor any of his aides was able to…</p>
<p>and where did you get this question from by the way?</p>
<p>then is neither…nor…
either…or
always siingular?</p>
<p>it depends on the verb that is the closest to the neither
EX:
Neither the teacher nor the students know the solution to the math problem.</p>
<p>Neither the students nor the teacher knows the solution to the math problem.</p>
<p>but what they test you on the SAT is usually singular</p>
<p>Now I get it. Thanks!</p>
<p>wait what? u have 2 accounts? lol</p>
<p>^^ maybe they are not the same person .
BTW it isn’t really the case that the SAT’s test singular more often .</p>
<p>But the original questions state </p>
<p>neither the president nor his AIDES </p>
<p>AIDES IS PLURAL IS IT NOT???</p>
<p>Hg where did you get this question from?</p>
<p>Barrons Writing</p>
<p>I tell you why:</p>
<p>(any) is singular . </p>
<p>Pretty amazed no one noticed it.</p>
<p>of his aides is a prepositional phrase(adjectival)</p>
<p>OOOOOO WOWOWOWOWOW</p>
<p>YEA OKAY I UNDERSTAND… ^. </p>
<p>Goodness…</p>
<p>@Hg, it says actually “ANY of his aides” which makes the whole difference here. That’s the reason why “were” is inappropriate here. Sorry for the late reply, i was outside.</p>
<p>oh wow, nvm that then^ seems someone got to it earlier</p>
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<p>I thought any could be singular or plural…</p>
<p>I agree with ^. Any and none can be singular or plural right?</p>
<p>^ You both are right, but the SAT prefers to use both any and none as singular.</p>
<p>This ‘‘issue’’ is an argument between grammarians.</p>
<p>Ex of another argument: Singular they.</p>
<p>Everybody in the family is eating (their) breakfast.
Everybody in the family is eating (his or her) breakfast.</p>
<p>Both are correct ,but on the SATs the second one is the ‘‘correct’’ one.</p>