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Consider the following sentence:

Therefore, they neither need someone else to flatter them, nor depend in great part on a government pension.

  1. Is it grammatically a correct sentence?
  2. Is there any type of inversion that can be used to make this sentence more formal?
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Your sentence is grammatically correct. Just simplify it and you will find the very common use of neither as a conjunction with nor. Note: Cambridge Dictionary shows that:

We can use neither as a conjunction with nor. It connects two or more negative alternatives. This can sound formal in speaking:

Therefore, they neither need X, nor depend on B

So already your initial sentence is formal enough. If you wish to use an inversion, there are two ways you can rephrase it:

Therefore, neither do they need someone else to flatter them, nor (do they) depend in great part on a government pension.

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Therefore, they do not need someone else to flatter them, neither do they depend in great part on a government pension.

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