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BW2/3 Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

one of, neither, either, any of, none

One of my friend likes Swimming.

None of my friends want to go to college.

Neither of my friends take the trip to Canada.

Either of them are tall.

Any of my girl friends are jealous.

Neither of my friends are rich.

One of my friends is really like to wear bikini.

Are they OK?

Thank You
  

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no, sometimes not: One of my friend likes Swimming. wrong One of my friend s likes Swimming. None of my friends want to go to college.

— Ksenya

  • no, sometimes not: One of my friend likes Swimming.
  • wrong One of my friend s likes Swimming.
  • None of my friends want to go to college.
  • wrong None of my friends want s to go to college.
  • Neither of my friends take the trip to Canada.
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no, sometimes not:

One of my friend likes Swimming. wrong One of my friends likes Swimming.

None of my friends want to go to college. wrong None of my friends wants to go to college.

Neither of my friends take the trip to
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Ksenya
Neither of my friends takes the trip to Canada. This is not idiomatic. Neither of my friends will take a trip to Canada, Neither of my friends took a trip to Canada.

Any of my girlfriends is jealous. This is also not idiomatic. What are you trying to say? Something like Any of my girlfriends would be
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None of my friends want to go to college is correct. So is None of my friends wants to go to college.

Cheers
CB
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One of my friends likes Sswimming.

None of my friends want to go to college. (or wants)

Neither of my friends take is taking the trip to Canada.

Either of them are tall. Neither of them is tall. Both of them are tall.

Any All of my girl friends are jealous.

Neithe
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"Neither of my friends are rich. (also is rich)"

Hi CJ
On this side of the Atlantic neither always takes a singular verb: Neither of my friends is rich.


Cheers
CB
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Hmmm. I think to be absolutely correct, an American should say the same. I guess it sounded okay to me as I breezed by it. I suppose a lot of Americans use "are" there, and so it didn't set off any alarms!

CJ
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I know people say are due to the plural friends, but friends isn't what determines the form of the verb. There's a similar mistake, very common in many languages that make a distinction between singular and plural verbs - even in Finnish people make this mistake:

He is one of the boys who has seen it.

This is wrong. The boys is the antecedent, not
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1. Neither of my friends are rich.
2. Neither of my friends is rich.

My inclination would be to use #1; though #2 is fine. The OED seems happy with "neither of" + noun phrase + plural verb, and gives an example:

3. Neither of us are the proper judges.

It also seems to be acceptable in literary contexts:

4. At length, when these two poten
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On this side of the Atlantic neither always takes a singular verb: Neither of my friends is rich.
In view of Mr. P's intervening post, maybe we need to amend the "always"???

Mr. P., you seem to have your finger on the pulse of the OED. Next time you're near it, could you see what their opinion is of none of PLURAL are vs. none of PLURAL is
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"In view of Mr. P's intervening post, maybe we need to amend the "always"???"

We'll just have to do that. I didn't know professional writers had used a plural verb with neither. Of course, we can disagree with the OED if we want to, can't we? I don't think I'll do that, though. Live and let live.

But in my apartment neither always takes a singular verb, that's f
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