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JKBelieve Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

A confusing sentence

'it has already been proven' OR 'it has already been proved' ?

So confused...Emotion: crying

One more thing,

'none of the members of my club were there' OR 'none of the members of my club was there'

Thanx guys ^^
  

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Proven, USA Prove, Britian In Britan, a singular verb is used after none plus of plural noun/pronoun, but informally, a plural verb could be used as well In USA, a plural verb is used after none plus of plural noun/pronoun.

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  • Proven, USA Prove, Britian In Britan, a singular verb is used after none plus of plural noun/pronoun, but informally, a plural verb could be used as well In USA, a plural verb is used after none plus of plural noun/pronoun.
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Proven, USA

Prove, Britian

In Britan, a singular verb is used after none plus of plural noun/pronoun, but informally, a plural verb could be used as well In USA, a plural verb is used after none plus of plural noun/pronoun.
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JKBelieve 'none of the members of my club were there'
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'none of the members of my club was there'
http://www.dianahacker.com/writersref/subpages_language/none.html
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Hi,

I think you mean

Proven, USA

Proved, Britain

However, I'm not aware of a national 'divide' on this.

In Scotland's court system, in addition to 'guilty' or 'not guilty', there can be an interesting verdict of 'not proven'.
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So which would you choose as a Brit, Clive?

Cheers,

Slava
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Hi,

It's hard to choose. I probably say both. Google gives fairly equally divided results, too.

There are these hits -

was proven - 2,160,000

was proved - 2,720,000

has proved - 16,200,000

has proven - 22,900,000

Best wishes, Clive
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Walter Cronkite on CBS news always used proved.
Then again, he said Febuary, too. Emotion: smile

CJ
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