Question

Identify the error in the sentence:
The news is neither good nor bad.
A) Neither
B) Nor
C) Are
D) No error

Answer 1

Hint: Error detection is a competitive test in which participants must locate grammatical errors in a sentence. Despite the fact that this method is called sentence correction, most issues in this area require only the classification of sentence errors.

Complete answer:
A singular verb is used when a plural noun is a proper name for a singular object or collective unit, and vice versa. The word 'news' is used as a singular object in the given sentence. The noun 'are' is plural. The singular verb 'is' should be used instead of 'are.' The phrase 'neither...nor' is right.
Option A) neither – is correctly used because neither is a phrase that is used for comparison. It is used to show negativity or impossibility or lack of an option in a sentence.
Option B) nor- it is correctly used. For a complete clause neither is accompanied by nor.
Option C) are- this is the error of the statement. The noun news is considered a singular word since it is a collective noun. Therefore the pronoun that is supposed to follow the word is “is” and not “are”.
As a result, choice C is the correct answer.

Option C) are- this is the error of the statement. The noun news is considered a singular word since it is a collective noun. Therefore the pronoun that is supposed to follow the word is “is” and not “are”.

Thus the correct answer is option ‘C’.

Note: We note that the word neither should be accompanied by nor where necessary and i is in singular no unless the nouns used are in plural. We note that the error identified in the given sentence with correction with respect to where the grammatical errors are located then find out and correct it with the following steps are the subject and verb must both be singular or plural in order for a sentence to be grammatically right.