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by clammiestqasar » Tue Jun 22, 2010 10:15 pm
1. As of this morning, none of my friends have been able to solve the puzzle contained in last week's newspaper.
(A) none of my friends have been able to solve
(B) none of my friends was able to solve
(C) not one of my friends has yet been able to solve
(D) none of my friends has been able to solve
(E) nobody among my friends have solved
kaplan says that none is singular and so D is the correct answer.But I think A is the correct answer.
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by viju9162 » Tue Jun 22, 2010 10:20 pm
Yes. None is singular. Therefore, has is appropriate here.

As nobody has solved yet, it is in present perfect form.
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by hardik.jadeja » Wed Jun 23, 2010 2:21 am
I have seen a similar discussion some time back. Some people consider NONE singular and some consider it plural. As per MGMAT SC Guide, NONE is a part of a group of five indefinite pronouns(SANAM pronouns) that are considered plural. Kaplan thinks the other way.

But if I recollect correctly, then one of the GMAT expert(I think it was Ron) said that he has never seen GMAT trying to test whether NONE is plural or singular. It is very unlikely that you will have two grammatically correct choices in the question and the only difference between them is that one option is using NONE as singular and the other one is using it as plural. That's not going to happen.

My advice is to ignore this question and just keep in mind that None can be both singular and plural.

Hope that helps..
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by clammiestqasar » Wed Jun 23, 2010 2:24 am
I have been following MGMAT and according to it none should be plural in this sentence because of the plural object of the of preposition.Just out of curosity,I wanted to know which is the correct answer?
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by hardik.jadeja » Wed Jun 23, 2010 2:37 am
hardik.jadeja wrote:I have seen a similar discussion some time back. Some people consider NONE singular and some consider it plural. As per MGMAT SC Guide, NONE is a part of a group of five indefinite pronouns(SANAM pronouns) that are considered plural. Kaplan thinks the other way.

But if I recollect correctly, then one of the GMAT expert(I think it was Ron) said that he has never seen GMAT trying to test whether NONE is plural or singular. It is very unlikely that you will have two grammatically correct choices in the question and the only difference between them is that one option is using NONE as singular and the other one is using it as plural. That's not going to happen.

My advice is to ignore this question and just keep in mind that None can be both singular and plural.

Hope that helps..
I was just searching for the discussion I was talking about in my previous post and I came across couple of more discussions on MGMAT forum.

https://www.manhattangmat.com/forums/usa ... t4375.html
https://www.manhattangmat.com/forums/con ... t7697.html
https://www.manhattangmat.com/forums/san ... -t859.html

You can see in the above discussions that there is some level of ambiguity about the usage to NONE but OG has couple of SC questions in which NONE is considered singular. So your first preference should be to consider NONE singular and only if the choice containing singular-NONE has some grammatical error, then you should go for plural-NONE.

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by viju9162 » Wed Jun 23, 2010 3:27 am
Yes, it helps. Thank you :).

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by GMATGuruNY » Wed Jun 23, 2010 4:35 am
The GMAT will not test whether none should be singular or plural.

To old-school grammarians, none is a contraction of the words "not one":

None of the students is eating the spinach = Not one of the students is eating the spinach.

But new-school grammarians will allow none to be used in a plural sense:

None of her friends are coming to the party = Not any of her friends are coming to the party.

Since there is debate, the issue will not be tested.
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