"Not... neither... nor..." word order
George Galloway is an outspoken MP with excellent rhetorical skills. I will take a part of his speech to convey the idea of my question.
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Iraq is neither strong, independent nor even a single country any more.
Would it be correct to rephrase the sentence above using this order "not/neither/nor" as follows:
Iraq is not strong neither independent nor even a single country any more.
And so on, can I form sentences similar to it, for example:
I am not mean neither greedy nor arrogant.
Would that be grammatically correct?
Solution 1:
No, it wouldn't. The order can either be
I am not X nor Y nor Z.
Or it can be
I am neither X nor Y nor Z.
Or even
I am not X and neither am I Y or Z.