Question
Neither the manager nor the employees (1)/ were willing
to (2)/ take responsibility for the (3)/ mishap that occurred last week. (4) The following sentence has been split into four segments. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error and select the option which rectifies that error. If no error is present then mark option 5 i.e., 'no error' as your answer.Solution
There is no error in the sentence. "Neither...nor" agrees with the subject closest to the verb, which is "employees," so "were" is correct.
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