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Probably complete OT but is this correct grammatically? "First, none of our policies have changed." I think it should read "none of our policies has changed"
by malshe 4y ago
Probably complete OT but is this correct grammatically?
"First, none of our policies have changed."
I think it should read "none of our policies has changed" instead. But I might be wrong as I get confused about this often.
- bombcar 4y agoThe policies? None have changed. There are zero changed policies. If there was one policy changed, that would be the one that has changed. But there are none that have changed. And of those that haven't changed, any two haven't changed. Those all sound correct to me. Zero is plural.
- malshe 4y agoThanks! TIL
- jcranmer 4y agoIn English, zero is grammatically plural. This isn't inherently true of all languages (that have a grammatical plural)--French, notably, treats zero as grammatically singular.
- malshe 4y agoThank you. Very interesting