By Singular verbs, Regards

I guess I'm not making myself clear enough. I understand that the some people say that "neither" takes a singular verb, and other people say that it must agree with the closest noun. But that doesn't change the fact that I and my friends regard these sentences as acceptable.Neither she nor her...

korin said: >Over approximately 1500 years, the mammoth set of inflections of the Old English has virtually been discarded leaving only 's' (plural nouns, 3rd person singular verbs, and saxon genitive) in modern English. English has become a rather analytic lg, where most of the syntactic...

Hi, it's me, Ralf, the starter of this thread. Thanks for your answers so far. A post in another thread pointed me to the "American Heritage - Book of English Usage", where I found this section: According to the standard rule, when the pronoun there precedes a verb such as be, seem, or appear,...

1.some of the pie is missing. (Compare: some of the pies are missing) Here "some" refer to "some pies", plural noun uses so-called plural verb 2.none of the three is interested. "none" here refers to not any one (of the three). "Not any one" is singular. Use so-called singular verb. 3.The crew...