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Word for the Wise : None is or none are?
In the first edition of William F. Stunk, Jr. and E.B. White’s classic guide The Elements of Style, the authors declared, “None takes the singular verb.” In the second edition, however, they changed their minds and said a plural verb was fine in instances “when none suggests more than one thing or person.” They illustrated [...]
