Dear colleagues,
To sum up the above and give it the form of a rule:
According to Longman English Grammar by L. G. Alexander
After NEITHER, when the reference is plural, we can use a plural verb in everyday speech, or a singular verb when we want to sound "correct" or formal
What does that mean?
Grammatically speaking, it means that originally we use a singular verb after Neither.
When we say: "Neither Ali (SINGULAR) nor Omar (SINGULAR) is happy.", we mean not Ali or Omar, individually.
There's an expression that says: neither one thing nor the other
Best Regards!
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