D or E which is correct?
Neither the president nor the vice president were concerned about the pervasive negative comparison between their own corporation’s environmental policy and their main competitor’s.
A) Neither the president nor the vice president were concerned about the pervasive negative comparison between their own corporation’s environmental policy and their main competitor’s.
B) Neither the president nor the vice president were concerned about the pervasive negative comparison between their own corporation’s environmental policy and their main competitor’s policy.
C) Neither the president nor the vice president was concerned about the pervasive negative comparison between their own corporation and their main competitor’s environmental policy.
D) Neither the president nor the vice president was concerned with the pervasive negative comparison between their own corporation’s environmental policy and their main competitor’s.
E) Both the president and the vice president were unconcerned about the pervasive negative comparison between their own corporation’s environmental policy and their main competitor’s.
Hi Shilpi,
The meaning we want to convey is that
President was not concerned
Vice President was also not concerned
D is the better construction to convey the intended meaning
In E, by saying both X and Y were not concerned, we might be conveying that they are not together in this. Maybe one of them is concerned
Hope this helps!
which is the correct idiom here: concerned with or concerned about ?
Parallelism and Logical construction
Neither X nor Y , followed by singular verb.
Option C conveys ” comparison between their own corporation and their main competitor’s environmental policy.” Meaning – comparison between between X and environmental policy of Y.
Option D – Meaning especially focuses on X’s policy and its comparison with Y’s policy.
Hope this may help !
