From the words lettered A to D below each of the following sentences, choose the word or group of words as it is used in the sentence Your submission is ....

Analyze the question: The sentence "Your submission is ..." needs a correctly formed idiom or correlative construction. The question is testing your knowledge of correlative conjunctions and a common English idiom.

Explain the concept: Correlative conjunctions always come in fixed pairs:

• either ... or
• neither ... nor

You cannot mix them (for example, "either ... nor" or "neither ... or" are wrong).

There is also a well-known idiom: "neither here nor there", which means irrelevant, unimportant, or not connected to the matter being discussed.

Step-by-step solution:

• A. neither here nor there uses the correct pair (neither ... nor) and is a standard idiom. ✔
• B. either here or there is grammatically correct as a pair, but it does not make sense as a comment on someone's submission. It is not the idiom.
• C. either here nor there mixes "either" with "nor". ✘
• D. neither there or here mixes "neither" with "or", and the order of the idiom is also altered. ✘

So "Your submission is neither here nor there" means your submission is not relevant to the issue at hand.

Answer: The correct option is A.

Exam tip: Remember the pairing rule: either → or and neither → nor. If an option mixes them, eliminate it immediately. Also learn common idioms like "neither here nor there", "by and large", and "odds and ends", since WASSCE, NECO, and JAMB often test them.