Some language purists maintain that none can take a singular verb, never a plural one:none of them is coming tonight rather than none of them are coming tonight. There is little historical or grammatical justification for this view. None comes from Old English nan meaning ‘not one’ and has been used for around a thousand years with both a singular and a plural verb, depending on the context and the emphasis needed.
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