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Notyouraveragedummy
Sep 29, 2017

"Neither Tommy nor his dancers have arrived."
"Neither Tommy nor his dancers are here."
"Neither the dancers nor Tommy is ready."

Explanation:

The verb for compound subjects consisting of both a singular and a plural noun or pronoun joined by or or nor should agree with the part of the subject that is nearest the verb.

The sentence "Neither the dancers nor Tommy is ready." is grammatically correct, but the preferred format is to put the singular noun first, before the plural noun and to use a verb for the plural. I used this example for illustration only.
Additional information can be found here:
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/599/01/

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