In Singular verbs^x, Clauses^x, American English^x

Thanks Jim, I understand, even though it seems kind of complicated to me. Also because I noticed this strange thing: CalifJim wrote: The discussion above covers most of this. which is more often used than who in AmE, and what the team, audience, etc. is/are actually doing may influence the...

First of all, the verb phrase "was/were hurt" refers to none of the officers . Shooting is a subject of the first clause, so don't worry about it. None of the officers should be followed by a singular verb in a formal style in British English, i.e. ...but none of the officers was hurt. ...