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Direction: In the following questions, some of the sentences have errors and some are correct. Find out which part of a sentence has an error. If there is No error, the answer is (4). (Ignore errors of punctuation, if any).

  1. Solve the question according to given instruction
    1. Neither the mouse
    2. nor the lion
    3. were caught.
    4. No error
Correct Option: C

was will replace were because –
neither ___ nor function as Conjunctions (Correlative).
In such cases, the Verb agrees with whichever Subject is closer to it.
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