Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence.
The family is neither interested in selling the house or rebuilding it.
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Correct answer: C
Explanation
The correct answer is option 3 i.e. nor rebuilding.
- This option aligns with the proper construction of correlative conjunctions in a negative sentence.
- The correlative conjunction "neither...nor" is used to indicate that both options presented are not applicable.
- In this case, "neither interested in selling the house nor rebuilding it" effectively conveys that the family has no interest in either selling the house or rebuilding it.
- The option "nor rebuilding" maintains parallelism with the preceding phrase "neither interested in selling the house," making it the correct choice.