Answer: Neither and nor are correlative conjunctions.
Explanation:
A conjunction is a word used to connect two words, phrases, or clauses. One type of conjunction is the correlative one.
Correlative conjunctions are pair of words that connect two ideas. These ideas are usually expressed in similar structures. The pair neither/nor gives a negative meaning to the message conveyed, excluding the ideas they connect. Study the example:
- Neither my father nor my mother had ever been to Grand Canyon before.
The pair neither/nor is used here to show that the elements "my father" and "my mother" are connected to the idea of being to the Grand Canyon in a negative sense: my father had never been there and my mother had never been there as well.
