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.Unlike the Shlites,who constitute the other major branch of islam,the Sunnites do not await the Mahdi as a messenger form God, nor do they endow him with divine qualities or immunity from failure in judgment.

(A) nor do they endow him

(B) but they do not endow him

(C) neither do they endow him

(D) and they neither endow him

(E) while endowing him neither

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neither should be the same as nor, in this particular case, IMHO.

在没有 neither...nor...结构时的否定用nor。

nor [Longman]

formal used after a negative statement in order to introduce another negative statement containing a similar kind of information

I don't expect children to be rude, nor do I expect to be disobeyed.

It was not my fault, nor his.