• @[email protected]
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    1 year ago

    “A number” is plural. You would not (I hope) say “A number of people has complained about my English.”

    • Bob
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      11 year ago

      But the verb in question is what “none” is doing, not “a number”, so that’s irrelevant. By analogy: “The singers are performing today, but one of them has a sore throat.” Introducing “one” doesn’t change the number of “singers”; it’s in a new clause. Bringing something irrelevant into it is what I called overthinking in the last comment.