Complete the spaceship captain's log entry. Choose the correct words for each gap to form natural, advanced sentences using coordinate ellipsis.
Commander Zog didn't understand the alien transmission, nor did his highly advanced translation matrix.
The forward shields are holding up perfectly against the asteroid storm, and the aft hull is too.
The hyperdrive needs to be repaired immediately, but I highly doubt the engineering team wants to right now.
Commander Zog didn't understand the alien transmission, nor did his highly advanced translation matrix.
When coordinating two negative statements with "nor," we use subject-auxiliary inversion. The auxiliary did is required to match the past simple tense of "didn't understand."
The forward shields are holding up perfectly against the asteroid storm, and the aft hull is too.
The first clause uses the present progressive ("are holding"). To avoid repeating the verb phrase, we keep the auxiliary verb. Because "hull" is singular, we must change "are" to is.
The hyperdrive needs to be repaired immediately, but I highly doubt the engineering team wants to right now.
This is an example of infinitive ellipsis. When omitting an infinitive phrase after verbs like want, need, or try, we must retain the particle to. Using "wants" by itself is grammatically incomplete in this context.