Question

Find the part of the sentence that contains an error:

The policy aims to neither penalise first-time offenders (1)/ nor those who may have violated norms (2)/ due to systemic ambiguity (3)/ rather than deliberate intent. (4)

• A. (1)
• B. (2)
• C. (3)
• D. (4)

Answer 1

Answer:

A. (1)

• this is an error of parallel construction with the correlative conjunction neither... nor. • The words following neither and nor must belong to the same grammatical category. • Because "nor" is followed by a noun phrase ("those who..."), "neither" must also immediately precede a noun phrase. • Correction: "The policy aims neither to penalise first-time offenders..." or "The policy aims to penalise neither first-time offenders nor those..."