In the following questions, one part of the sentence may have an error. Find out which part of the sentence has an error and click the option corresponding to it. If the sentence is free from error, click the 'No Error' option. Neither of them(P)/ work hard enough(Q)/ for the company(R)/ No error(S).?

Option 2 : Q

The error lies in part Q of the question. Therefore the correct answer is option 2.

Here, 'neither' is used as an indefinite pronoun (it is also counted among distributive pronouns) and is also the subject in the given sentence and it means 'not the one or the other of two or more persons or things'. An indefinite pronoun is used to refer to one or more unspecified objects, persons or places. They are called 'indefinite' simply because they do not indicate the exact object, person, or place to which they refer.

With the pronoun 'neither', a singular verb is used as 'neither' means not one out of two or more, so it is a singular subject which should take a singular verb.

Correct Sentence- Neither of them works hard enough for the company.

Tip- With indefinite pronouns like neither, either, anybody, anyone, somebody, someone and no one, the singular form of the verb is used.