Question
Neither the students nor the teacher has their book.
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GPT-4o mini
The sentence "Neither the students nor the teacher has their book" presents an agreement issue concerning the subject-verb agreement. The phrase "neither...nor" typically takes a singular verb when the subjects are different.
The correct form of the sentence should be: "Neither the students nor the teacher has his or her book." However, it's also common in informal usage to use "their" as a gender-neutral singular pronoun, which many people now accept.
If you're looking for a more formal construction, you can say: "Neither the students nor the teacher has a book."
The correct form of the sentence should be: "Neither the students nor the teacher has his or her book." However, it's also common in informal usage to use "their" as a gender-neutral singular pronoun, which many people now accept.
If you're looking for a more formal construction, you can say: "Neither the students nor the teacher has a book."