"Nor" or "Or"?
Posted: Sat May 21, 2005 12:42 pm
Hi All,
Here are three lines from a screenplay that I'm writing (two of screen direction and one of dialogue).
1) This window won’t budge nor break from the chair either.
2) Now the corridor door won’t open, and neither as it happens will the communicating door to the next-door room, nor the transom above the corridor door, try as Frank and Jean might.
3) "And Father Kadzinski ... not infamous nor on his second nor third life ... merely a cannibal serial-killer priest!"
Now, I'm probably just too close to the material, but I can't tell if my use of "nor" in these sentences is correct, especially in #3. Can anyone please help?
Here are three lines from a screenplay that I'm writing (two of screen direction and one of dialogue).
1) This window won’t budge nor break from the chair either.
2) Now the corridor door won’t open, and neither as it happens will the communicating door to the next-door room, nor the transom above the corridor door, try as Frank and Jean might.
3) "And Father Kadzinski ... not infamous nor on his second nor third life ... merely a cannibal serial-killer priest!"
Now, I'm probably just too close to the material, but I can't tell if my use of "nor" in these sentences is correct, especially in #3. Can anyone please help?