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ACT English Difficulty: Medium (29)

Digital ACT English Practice Question #1379

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Choose the best option for the underlined portion: Neither the senior civil engineer nor the municipal project managers was convinced that the suspension bridge design could withstand category-five hurricane winds.
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With 'neither... nor' and 'either... or', proximity rules! Look at the subject right next to the verb.

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With correlative conjunctions like 'neither... nor', the verb must agree with the subject closest to it. Here, 'project managers' is plural and immediately precedes the verb, so the plural past verb 'were convinced' is required....

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