Identify the part containing a grammatical or structural error:
Neither Ramesh nor his friends is willing to join.
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Correct answer: A
Explanation
When a sentence uses the correlative conjunction "neither... nor", the verb must agree with the subject closest to it.
In the sentence "Neither Ramesh nor his friends is willing to join," the closest subject to the verb is "his friends", which is plural.
Because the subject is plural, the singular verb "is" should be replaced with the plural verb "are".
Correct Sentence: Neither Ramesh nor his friends are willing to join.