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Neither Italy nor France got to the quarter finals last year.

How should one correctly express the above sentence by including just another subject? Is it:

  1. Neither Italy neither Germany nor France got to the quarter finals last year.

or

  1. Neither Italy nor Germany nor France got to the quarter finals last year.
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The second. "Nor" may be repeated, but "neither" cannot.

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    (+1) For longer lists, nor operates like other conjunctions, i.e. Neither Italy, Germany, England, Japan, Russia, nor France got to the quarter finals last year.
    – Era
    Mar 2, 2016 at 16:04
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Version 2 is acceptable.

Usually when the list is more than two we uses commas for all but the last. "Neither Italy, Germany, nor France ..."

Some people say that "neither" should only be used when there are exactly two items under discussion. If more than two, you should use other words, such as "none of". For example, "None of Italy, Germany, or France ..."

In practice, I think, most English speakers consider "none" constructs awkward, and re-cast the sentence to a positive list with a negative verb. "Italy, Germany, and France all failed to get to the finals this year."

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