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The following sentence has been split into four segments. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error. Neither the doctors nor / the nurs
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The following sentence has been split into four segments. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error.
Neither the doctors nor / the nurse were present / when the patient / reached the hospital.

A.

Neither the doctors nor

B.

the nurse were present

C.

when the patient

D.

reached the hospital.

Correct option is B

The segment that contains a grammatical error in the given sentence is option (b).
The subject-verb agreement in this sentence is incorrect. The subject of the sentence is "Neither the doctors nor the nurse," which is a compound subject joined by the conjunction "nor". The verb should agree with the subject, which is singular. Therefore, the verb should also be singular.
The correct sentence is: "Neither the doctors nor the nurse was present when the patient reached the hospital."
 In this corrected sentence, the verb "was" is singular and agrees with the singular subject "Neither the doctors nor the nurse."
 Therefore, the grammatically incorrect segment in the given sentence is (b) "the nurse were present," and it should be corrected to "the nurse was present."

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