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Joseph A Posted 9 years ago
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Hello everyone

I have two questions:

1. Does the pronoun "none" take a singular verb or a plural verb? As following:

a. None helps me.

b. None help me.

2. If the subject of a sentence is "none", is it correct to tag the sentence? as follow:

- None helped me, did they?

Regards

JA

  

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Joseph A 1. Does the pronoun "none" take a singular verb or a plural verb? As following:a.

— Mister Micawber

  • Joseph A 1.
  • Does the pronoun "none" take a singular verb or a plural verb?
  • As following:a.
  • b.
  • None help me.
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Joseph A1. Does the pronoun "none" take a singular verb or a plural verb? As following:a. None helps me.b. None help me.

Strictly, singular; popularly, plural.

Joseph A2. If the subject of a sentence is "none", is it correct to tag the sentence? as follow:- None helped me, did they?

Popularly, yes; strictly, no.

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