None is or are?
This question has been discussed for ages, but in fact there is a clear answer to it.
It is now agreed that "None is" is more formal than the other one . That's all.
It is interesting to note that the original collocation is "None are", as stated in Oxford English Dictionary that none means " no persons". But there was a time since when people have beening treating "None are" as a wrong form. Now, most of the authorites agree that both are correct and so stop saying that either one is wrong anymore.
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