Jul 18, 2018 · The sentence could be interpreted as "is" referring to "none of us" as a whole, which would turn the sentence meaning into "a group consisting of none of us is as smart as all of us together", which is obviously the opposite of the true meaning of the quote.

Both d and e seem to be incorrect. none in this cause is plural, in the same logic that 0 is plural. 0 horse s, rather than 0 horse. Additionally, the word American here is an adjective, and as such should be American, not Americans. There are three phrases you can use: There are grammarians in the room, but not one of them is an American. There are grammarians in the …

Concerning None have/None has "none" has been used with both singular and plural verbs since the 9th century. Fact: Only when none is clearly intended to mean “not one” or “not any” is it followed by a singular verb in all other cases it is plural. One special problem occurs with the word none, which has its origin in the phrase not one.

Nov 9, 2015 · 5 None of them sound natural. 11 None of them sounds natural. Example #5 is clearly fine -- the verb agrees with both none and them -- but, surprisingly perhaps, so is #11. This is one of those strange cases where, because of the intervening words between none and the verb, my ear no longer cares that none is supposed to be plural.

May 9, 2020 · What is the difference between none of these none of them and either of these? And are they grammatical correct? Here is the context. There are two links and both of links are not working for me....

Apr 13, 2020 · Does "not one of them" mean “more than one of them” or “none of them”? Example: Not one of them thought it necessary to avoid dogmatic statements about unicorns because he had never seen one of them.

The distinction already made between two and more than two is valid, but it would be preferable to write the sentences as Neither / None of my teachers is a mathematician.

The phrase no one of them is "grammatical" (taking that to mean that it is both idiomatic and meaningful), but it is not always the same thing as none of them. It is an emphatic form employed to distinguish a proposition concerning a number of entities taken singly from propositions concerning the same entities taken in combination. Consider the difference between these two …

Nov 30, 2018 · Rachel posted a message with the following quotation (I have not checked the quoted source directly): "When none, neither, either and any are followed by "of + plural noun/pronoun," they are normally used with singular verbs in a formal style in British English. Plural verbs are common in informal British usage and generally in American English.

From my dictionary: It is sometimes held that none can take only a singular verb, never a plural verb: : none of them is coming tonight, rather than : none of them are coming tonight. There is little justification, historical or grammatical, for this view. None is descended from Old English nān, meaning ‘not one,’ and has been used for around a thousand years with both a singular and a ...