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Moon-baby Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

Neither of us

0Which is correct : a- Neither of us 01u00has02u00 anything in common.02br
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00Sometimes I see that this construction is dealt with as singular and sometimes as plural.02br
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0 01i 00Neither ... has02i 00 is the formal way to write this. 02br 02br 00 CJ0-

— CalifJim

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0 01i00Neither ... has02i00 is the formal way to write this. Nevertheless, in informal conversation, many people use the plural.02br
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0Sorry to interrupt and thank you CJ.02br
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00How about :02br
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01i00None of them has/have....02i02br
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00I think this is similar to 'All of them', so the plural is commonly used. Right?02br
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0 01i00none of them has02i00 is correct for a formal context, but people commonly say 01i00none of them have02i00.02br
01i00none of it has02i00 is correct in all contexts.02br
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01i00all of them has02i00 is not ever correct. It is always 01i00all of them have02i
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0Thank you CJ. I understand. 05002br
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0 01font00a- Neither of us 01u00has02u00 anything in common.02font02br
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01font00 b- Neither of us 01u00have02u00 anything in common.02font02br
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00Apart from the has/have question, I think there is something odd about this s
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0 Hi Khoff,02br
00I really didn't thought about that, I think you are right.02br
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01i01b00Neither of us have a car02b02i00 is ok, 01i01b00Neither of us have anything in common02b02i00... is grammatically ok, but it doesn't make sense! It would be better if it was 01b01i00
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00Thank you guys.And yeah maybe the sentence didn't make sense but i was preoccupied with grammar that i didn't check the meaning.02h3

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01cite10Khoff12cite10 11font10a- Neither of us 11u10has12u10 anything in common.12font12br
11font10 b- Neither of us 11u10have12u10 anything in common.12font12br
10These sentences are odd:
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00 I think there is something odd about this sentence. ... 10You would just have to say "we have nothing in common." Jim, do you agree?10 12blockquote
10Yes. It struck me that way the moment I read it, although in the most charitable interpretation it was the relevant segment (i.e., the part involving subject-verb agreement) of 
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001 11b10Neither 12b10of us has anything in common. 12br
102 11b10None 12b10of us has anything in common. 12br
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10Hi. I understand from your explanations that 1 is wrong not grammatically but semantically.02br
00But why is 2 OK? Could you te
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