Question

The following sentence is grammatically correct:
Jim could not find neither his phone nor his wallet.
a) True
b) False

Answer 1

Hint: The student should carefully read the sentence and identify the error in it. If there is an error or multiple errors, then the student should select the option that corresponds to the sentence being grammatically incorrect and vice versa.

Complete answer:
We know that ‘not’ is a negation of a word or group of words.
In the given question, we have to find out which of the options indicates that the statement is grammatically incorrect, as ‘neither’ and ‘nor’ is a negative conjugation, and a negative word like ‘not’ cannot be used before this conjugation.
Let us thus analyze the options given to us in this question -
Option (a.), 'True', says that ‘Jim could not find neither his phone nor his wallet’ is a grammatically correct sentence.
Therefore, option (a.) is incorrect as the given sentence is grammatically incorrect (due to the use of ‘not’ in the sentence, which is needed since the negation of ‘neither’ and ‘nor’ is already present).
Option (b.), ‘False', says that ‘Jim could not find neither his phone nor his wallet’ is a grammatically incorrect sentence.
Therefore, option (b.) is correct as the given sentence is indeed grammatically incorrect due to the unnecessary use of the negation ‘not’.

Note:
 In this question, it will be helpful for the student to recall the concept of ‘neither’ and ‘nor’. ‘Neither’ is a conjugation which means ‘not either (used with nor)’. ‘Nor’ is a function word introducing each except the first term or series, indicating none of them is true.