Issue 161 in svnbook: [PATCH] Grammatical Error in Chapter 1 "none of them is." sb "none of them are."

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Wed Apr 11 16:00:45 CDT 2012


Comment #2 on issue 161 by squareon... at gmail.com: [PATCH] Grammatical Error  
in Chapter 1 "none of them is." sb "none of them are."
http://code.google.com/p/svnbook/issues/detail?id=161

After searching this and double checking, you're right - but for the wrong  
reason.

Both "is" and "are" are acceptable when using none when referring to a  
plural.

Apologies for making a common mis-correction, this may be a difference  
between US and UK English.





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