Before revision: Senseless but grammatical Chomsky wrote in his 1957 book Syntactic Structures: It is fair to assume that neither sentence (1) nor (2 ) (nor indeed any part of these sentences ) had ever previously occurred in an English discourse.
After revision: Senseless but grammatical Chomsky wrote in his 1957 book Syntactic Structures: It is fair to assume that neither sentence (1) nor (2 ) had ever previously occurred in an English discourse.