Hi there!! Hope you're doing well. I'm not pretty sure if the verb after the subjects below is singular or plural, or maybe they're interchangeable. Hope I made myself understood.Thanks for your help.

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Apr 15, 2025 12:33 PM

Hi there!! Hope you're doing well. I'm not pretty sure if the verb after the subjects below is singular or plural, or maybe they're interchangeable. Hope I made myself understood.Thanks for your help. 1 Neither of us is/are more intelligent than she is. 2 None of them live/lives around here. 3 Neither John nor Peter works/work in this company Hi Queti. Although in common speech some people might use plurals with 1 and 3, technically both are singular. None of them in your example means not any of them, so it’s plural. Neither of us is None of them live Neither works

Apr 15, 2025 1:03 PM

1 Definitely singular. Not one or the other is more intelligent than she is. You are considering them in turn. 2 Singular. Again you are considering them in turn, 3 Singular again. 2 is most like to use the plural in everyday speech.

Apr 15, 2025 12:58 PM

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