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1. Indefinite pronouns (somebody, someone, anybody, something, anything); universal pronouns (everybody, everyone, everything, each); negative pronouns (nobody, no one, neither, etc.) have a singular predicate:
Everyone thinks he has the answer.
There was nothing to attract our attention.
Nobody has come except him.
However the negative pronoun none may have a singular or a plural verb-predicate, it depends whether one person is meant or more than one:
None of us understands/understand it.
2. Interrogative pronouns who, what have a singular verb-predicate:
Who is this man? What is there?
If the question refers to more than one person, a plural predicate may be used:
Who are with him? Who have agreed to act?
3. If the subject is expressed by a relative pronoun (who, which, that) the verb-predicate agrees with its antecedent:
It is I who am wrong. It is you who are wrong.
You are the one who is wrong. I don’t know the boys who live next door.
Shish Kebab is one of those dishes, which have to be cooked outdoors.
4. The universal pronoun both has a plural predicate:
Which of the books are yours? Both are mine.
5. The pronoun all in the sense “всё” has a singular verb, while all in the sense все has a plural verb:
All is well that ends well.
All were ready by that time.
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