<div dir="ltr">The LA Times agrees with Gislin:<div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/opinion/tn-dpt-xpm-2013-07-22-tn-dpt-me-0725-casagrande-20130722-story.html#:~:text=But%20Webster's%20also%20defines%20%E2%80%9Cnone,none%20were%E2%80%9D%20can%20be%20correct.'">https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/opinion/tn-dpt-xpm-2013-07-22-tn-dpt-me-0725-casagrande-20130722-story.html#:~:text=But%20Webster's%20also%20defines%20%E2%80%9Cnone,none%20were%E2%80%9D%20can%20be%20correct.</a><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 11:56 AM Gislin Dagnelie via cvnet <<a href="mailto:cvnet@lawton.ewind.com">cvnet@lawton.ewind.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">IMHO, and admittedly as a non-native speaker, "none" is the linguistic <br>
equivalent of an empty set, so one can assign either singular or plural to it.  <br>
Neither is wrong, but plural is definitely the common choice.  Anyone with more <br>
linguistic knowledge, please weigh in.<br>
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Gislin<br>
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On 29 Apr 2022 at 17:56, Todd, James via cvnet <<a href="mailto:todd.44@osu.edu" target="_blank">todd.44@osu.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
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I'm sure you are both correct in terms of formal grammar, but "none of them was<br>
removed" sounds weird to my ear, because "was" immediately follows "them". I'd<br>
be curious to know statistically what form of the verb the average speaker of<br>
English would use in that context. The verb change associated with the<br>
subjunctive is also grammatically correct, but most English speakers do not use<br>
it, at least in the US.<br>
<br>
Jim Todd<br>
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Cc: Brian Timney <<a href="mailto:timney@uwo.ca" target="_blank">timney@uwo.ca</a>>; Johnson, Chris A <<a href="mailto:chris-a-johnson@uiowa.edu" target="_blank">chris-a-johnson@uiowa.edu</a>>;<br>
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As much as I hate to point out your grammatical error, Todd, I shall. The<br>
sentence toward the end stating " none of them were" should be " none of<br>
them was" because the subject is singular. Sent from Terri´s iPhone  <br>
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