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None is short for 'not one (person/thing)' or 'no one' or 'not any.'
Because 'none' has a 'singular' basic meaning, it is easy to think that it should always be followed by a singular verb, e.g. "None of us is perfect."
However, in the English language, for over a thousand years, none has been used with both singular and plural verb forms!
In fact, when the meaning is "not any persons or things" (see example above), the plural form is much more usual, i.e.
- "None of us are perfect."
- "Of all the books in the world, none is more well known than ... ."
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