“Neither…nor” with “to” and “by” together.
Is this statement grammatically correct? “the fee is administered and retained by the vendor.” It is neither revenue to, nor administered by this agency. “Do
you think a “too bad” thing is true?
The use of neither/nor is not unconventional, and the sentence is more awkward than “wrong”. “The fee is administered and retained
by the vendor, independent of this agency. “How
can we build our country?
How do I find an interesting example of it? Is it grammatical? Is it bad? It’s a right node-raising construction ( see Wikipedia ), which is easy to explain in a positive version
*It is both revenue to, and administered by, this agency.
I mark this with asterisk to mean that I find it unacceptable. It would come, using the right node-raising rule, from:
*It is both revenue to this agency and administered by this agency.
a revenue to this agency
and it is administered by this agency. (*Both) Is revenue to this agency and that, in turn, from:
using a Conjunction Reduction, assuming that “revenue to this agency” and “administered by this agency” are of same grammatical category. is not the same? Which is worse is that these two expressions are not
of the same category, so that the reduction is not permitted.
What should I say in the first sentence: “”The fee is administered and retained by the vendor, not by this agency “If I accept the fee then I understand that you are still charged through Merchandise.” ” ” Or, if you must keep two sentences (which seem redundant in meaning), use “The fee is administered and retained by the vendor.” The agency does not administer the fee or collect it as revenue. What is the advantage of the second construction of a sentence when the first is active in a normal subject-verb order?
..The fee
is administered and retained by the vendor. ] It neither constitutes a revenue to this agency nor is it administered by it. “I
am a deaf person. “
In the sense that it is widely used, grammatical, and grammatical, in the manner that it is commonly used (particularly in legal and bureaucratic writing).
Element? of elements in Conjoined element should be grammatical?
My own feeling is that it is an inefficient and graceless device, which saves some minor repetitiveness at the cost of greatly decreasing intelligibility, and consequently should be avoided by writers who respect their readers.