Asked by Makayla

Select the more effective use of correlative conjunctions to join these sentences.

The manager of the supermarket will help the new employee. The assistant manager may help the employee, too.

Both the manager of the supermarket and the assistant manager may help the new employee.
Neither the manager of the supermarket nor the assistant manager may help the new employee.

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
"Both the manager of the supermarket and the assistant manager may help the new employee." is the better choice.

Reason: "Neither ... nor ..." contradicts the original (which says at least one of them will or may help). Note, though, that the first option slightly weakens the original by changing the manager's certainty from "will" to "may." If you want to preserve the original meanings exactly, use either:

- The manager of the supermarket will help the new employee, and the assistant manager may help, too.
or (using a correlative pair)
- Not only will the manager of the supermarket help the new employee, but the assistant manager may help as well.