Read the given sentences carefully and choose the grammatically correct options which make perfect sense :-
(A) I have not met them nor do I wish to meet them.
(B) She was fabulously rich but she was happy.
(C) Either of the two applicants are fit for the job but neither wants to accept it.
(D) Your lack of punctuality demonstrates disrespect for your friends’ time as well as yours.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → (A) and (D) only
(A) I have not met them nor do I wish to meet them. — Correct.
- After a negative clause, nor adds a second negative idea and takes inverted word order: nor do I wish.
(B) She was fabulously rich but she was happy. — Incorrect.
- But joins two ideas that contrast.
- Being rich and being happy do not contrast, so the sentence does not make sense.
- It would work as "She was fabulously rich but she was not happy".
- Correct form: She was fabulously rich but she was not happy.
(C) Either of the two applicants are fit for the job but neither wants to accept it. — Incorrect.
- Either of the two takes a singular verb: "Either of the two applicants is fit for the job".
- Correct form: Either of the two applicants is fit for the job but neither wants to accept it.
(D) Your lack of punctuality demonstrates disrespect for your friends’ time as well as yours. — Correct.
- The singular subject "lack" takes "demonstrates", and yours stands for "your time", so the two halves are parallel.