Choose the correct option:
Correct answer: D. Neither the nurse nor the doctors like when their patients are in pain.
- A. Neither the doctors nor the nurse like when their patients are in pain.
- B. Neither the nurse nor the doctors like when his patients are in pain.
- C. Neither the nurse nor the doctors like when her patients are in pain.
- D. Neither the nurse nor the doctors like when their patients are in pain.
Explanation
"Neither...nor" is a correlative conjunction that connects two singular nouns or phrases, but here it connects a singular noun "nurse" with a plural noun "doctors", so the verb "like" agrees with the plural subject.- The pronoun "their" agrees with the plural subject "doctors" and indicates that the patients belong to the doctors (and implicitly, the nurse as well).
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