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In your sentence "Neither Mercury nor Pluto are as large as Earth," the word, Neither, is the subject. In classical English it would read, "Neither Mercury nor Pluto is as large as Earth." However American English prefers smooth flow and tends to ignore the rules of classical grammar. It tends to have the verb take the form of the noun or nouns immediately preceding the verb. Thus, while in Classical English, the verb would be is since the subject is Neither, American English is likely to use the verb are since it immediately follows Mercury and Pluto.

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