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[ article ] determiner, none of the two
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[ adverb ] after a negative statement used to indicate that the next statement is similarly negative
Examples "I was not happy and neither were they" "just as you would not complain, neither should he" Used in print (The New York Times,...)It was neither a spirit of self-sacrifice nor a yen to encourage the downtrodden that motivated Arnold . (Organic Gardening and Farming,...)The flavor is neither sweet , like a pear , nor tart like an orange ; it is subtle and rather bland , nut like . (Edward P. Lawton, "Northern Liberals and Southern...)But in our case - and neither my wife nor I have extreme views on integration , nor are we given to emotional outbursts - the situation has ruined one or two valued friendships and come_close to wrecking several more . (Clement Greenberg, "Collage" in his Art and...)For the illusion of depth created by the contrast between the affixed material and everything else gives_way immediately to an illusion of forms in bas-relief , which gives_way in_turn , and with equal immediacy , to an illusion that seems to contain both - or neither . (Christopher Davis, First Family....)His hands , which had been as quick as a pair of fluttering birds , were now neither active nor really relaxed . |
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[ conjunction ] conjunction, not one and not the other
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