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Neither the urban planners nor the manager of the city's civil engineers anticipate that the new industrial park will have taken more than three years to complete.

(A) anticipate that the new industrial park will have taken more three years to complete
(B) anticipate that the new industrial park will take more than three years to complete
(C) have anticipated that the new industrial park will have taken more than three years to complete
(D) anticipates that the new industrial park will have taken more than three years to complete
(E) anticipates that the new industrial park will take more than three years to complete
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Neither X nor Y construction
nearest noun to the verb anticipate is Manager, a singular Noun, so will have singular verb.

Left with option D and E.
option D is wrong because of "will have"

Correct answer- E
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Neither the urban planners nor the manager 19 Apr 2018, 07:08
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Neither X nor Y
Y is sg (manager) -> anticipates
(D) has an awkward passive construction

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Neither the urban planners nor the manager 04 May 2018, 02:34
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Neither.. nor.. takes subject closest
Here closest subject is Manager so anticipates is right usage

Bw D and E
will have taken is passive in nature and making sentence wordy

Whereas E solves this error with intended meaning

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Neither the urban planners nor the manager 08 May 2018, 10:05
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pls help. why d is wrong.
will have done is used to show an action which is finished before a time in future or present.
by noun/by next monday, he will have done the job.

is this the reason why d is wrong?
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pls help. why d is wrong.
will have done is used to show an action which is finished before a time in future or present.
by noun/by next monday, he will have done the job.

is this the reason why d is wrong?
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I can try to solve your doubt

If you take usage in D it appears that the same thing has been accomplished.yes you are correct about usage of future perfect here.

However in E ,it simply states the thing will take this much time. Which is intended meaning of sentence

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Is this a correct usage of Neither Nor .. does the Final answer E actually make sense
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