When members of a group make it known

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When members of a group make it known that they find a work of art on display at a museum to be offensive, this is not a form of censorship, for  they have neither prevented the artist from creating the art nor from displaying the art in other venues .

(A) they have neither prevented the artist from creating the art nor from displaying the art in other venues.
(B) neither have they prevented the artist from creating the art nor displaying the art in other venues.
(C) they have not prevented the artist from creating the art or displaying the art in other venues.
(D) they have not prevented the artist from creating the art nor have they from displaying the art in other venues.
(E) they have neither prevented the artist from creating the art nor prevented the artist from the displaying of the art in other venues.

daagh · Accepted Answer

A. they have neither prevented the artist from creating the art nor from displaying the art in other venues. --- Neither prevented--- nor from --- f ouling on correlative //ism .

B. neither have they prevented the artist from creating the art nor displaying the art in other venues. ------  same as in A.

C. they have not prevented the artist from creating the art or displaying the art in other venues.  Correct choice; parallelism maintained in ‘creating or displaying’. Not and or is a correct combination, since the negativity of the initial ‘not’ is carried through ‘or’ also. 
 
D. they have not prevented the artist from creating the art nor have they from displaying the art in other venues. -----  not --- nor or do not go together; they turns double negatives.

E. they have neither prevented the artist from creating the art nor prevented the artist from the displaying of the art in other venues. – ‘ from the displaying of’ is wordy; repetition of ‘prevented the artist from’ on either side of ‘neither—nor’ is verbose.

plaverbach · Answer

Veritas official answer. I would like someone to provide me a backgrond on the use of nether / nor! =)

This sentence features the potential for parallel structure errors, as the two actions, 'creating the art' and 'displaying the art', must be articulated in parallel form. Choice A uses the construction "neither prevented . . . nor from displaying." With use of the construction 'neither'nor', the phrase after 'neither' needs to be parallel to that which follows "nor."

Because 'prevented' is not parallel to 'from displaying', answer choice A is incorrect. 
Choice B is similarly incorrect, as "neither have they prevented . . . nor displaying' also fails to set up the two items as parallel. 
Choice C correctly uses the parallel construction " prevented the artist from creating . . . or displaying." The two verb phrases 'from creating' and 'from displaying' are parallel, and therefore answer choice C is correct. 
Choice D is guilty of two different Sentence Construction errors in the same phrase. ''not prevented the artist from creating'nor have they from displaying' would require a verb clause ('prevented him') after 'have' in order to be parallel; as it is 'nor have they from'' is a sentence fragment in need of a verb clause, regardless of parallel structure. 
In choice E, the phrases following 'prevented' in each case, "the displaying of the art" and "creating the art', should be parallel, but are not. Accordingly, E is also incorrect.

pqhai · Answer

Hello nishith17

This question tests parallel structure:  Neither X nor Y  <== X and Y must be parallel.

When members of a group make it known that they find a work of art on display at a museum to be offensive, this is not a form of censorship, for  they have neither prevented the artist from creating the art nor from displaying the art in other venues.

a- they have  neither prevented  the artist from creating the art  nor from displaying  the art in other venues.
Wrong.

b-  neither have  they prevented the artist from creating the art  nor displaying  the art in other venues.
Wrong.

c- they have not prevented the artist from  creating  the art or  displaying  the art in other venues.
Correct.

d- they have  not  prevented the artist from creating the art  nor  have they from displaying the art in other venues.
Wrong.

e- they have  neither prevented  the artist from creating the art  nor prevented  the artist from the displaying of the art in other venues. 
Wrong. Very wordy. Why we have to repeat exactly same words in 1 sentence. The correct structure should be "prevented the artist from NEITHER creating ....NOR displaying".

Hope it helps.

Success2015 · Answer

as noted in the above post, option E can be eliminated since the 2 parts marked below are not parallel
"they have neither prevented the artist from  creating the art  nor prevented the artist from  the displaying of the art  in other venues."

creating is not parallel to 'displaying of'

mvictor · Answer

1 year apart!

I narrowed down to C and E...other ones do not maintain parallelism...
E introduces extra info - prevented artists from the displaying..we don't know whether the ARTISTS were the one to chose where to display their material..so C

sleepynut · Answer

Hi,
IMHO,(E) is grammatically correct,but quite wordy.(D) is incorrect as the comma is missing before "nor".I am torn among (A),(B) and (C)

My question is how far ellipsis can go?
Can (A) and (B) read as below respectively?

they have neither prevented the artist from creating the art nor [they have neither prevented the artist] from displaying...

neither have they prevented the artist from creating the art nor [have they prevented the artist from] displaying...

Please help clarify :-)

Thanks

Thanks

sayantanc2k · Answer

It would be much easier to solve such problems when you recognise where the parralellism structure begins and which the two elements of parallelism are:

A: ...  NEITHER ( prevented  the artist from creating the art) NOR ( from displaying  the art in other venues).
The first elemnt is a verb ("prevented"), so the second elemnt should also be a verb, e.g. neither prevented, nor penalised. However the second element is a prepositional phrase ("from displaying"). Hence option A is wrong.

B: ......  NEITHER ( have  they  prevented  the artist from creating the art) NOR ( displaying  the art in other venues.)
A verb ("have prevented") is wrongly made parallel to a gerund ("displaying").

C: .........  FROM ( creating  the art) OR ( displaying  the art).
Two gerunds "creating" and "displaying" are correctly made parallel.

varun4s · Answer

When members of a group make it known that they find a work of art on display at a museum to be offensive, this is not a form of censorship, for  they have neither prevented the artist from creating the art nor from displaying the art in other venues.

a- they have  neither prevented  the artist from creating the art  nor from displaying  the art in other venues.  (Both neither and nor part should be in parallel form) 
b-  neither have  they prevented the artist from creating the art  nor displaying  the art in other venues  (Same as A). 
c- they have not prevented the artist from creating the art or displaying the art in other venues  (Correct). 
d- they have not prevented the artist from creating the art  nor  have they from displaying the art in other venues.  (Neither--nor is the correct from) 
e- they have neither prevented the artist from creating the art nor prevented the artist from the displaying of the art in other venues.  (Grammatically correct but wordy)

Kudos please if you like my explanation!

leanhdung · Answer

When members of a group make it known that they find a work of art on display at a museum to be offensive, this is not a form of censorship, for  they have neither prevented the artist from creating the art nor from displaying the art in other venues.

a- they have  neither prevented  the artist from creating the art  nor from displaying  the art in other venues.

b-  neither have they prevented  the artist from creating the art  nor displaying  the art in other venues.

c- they have not prevented the artist  from creating  the art  or displaying  the art in other venues.

d- they have not prevented the artist from creating the art  nor have they from displaying  the art in other venues.

e- they have  neither prevented the artist from  creating the art  nor prevented the artist from  the displaying of the art in other venues.

Hahshsh · Answer

in option c how to find out that prevented and displaying should not be taken for parallelism and not creating and displaying

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