Fill in the blanks with the correct pair of words arranged sequentially:
Physics ______ my weakest subject, but neither my tutor nor my parents ______ worried about my marks.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → is, are
Subject-verb agreement in two parts of the sentence:
- Blank 1: “Physics” ends in -s, but it is the name of one subject. So it is singular and takes is.
- Blank 2: With “neither ... nor”, the verb agrees with the subject nearer to it. Here that is “my parents”, which is plural. So the verb is are.
- Complete sentence: Physics is my weakest subject, but neither my tutor nor my parents are worried about my marks.