Subject-Verb Agreement

One of the boys is sick.
Three of the men were alone.
Several of the apples are rotten.
Many of the people are students.
Some of the bananas are ripe. Some of the watrer is impure.
Most of the girls are here. Most of the pie is gone.
Half of the cakes are frosted. Half of the cake is frosted.
All of the monkeys are asleep. All of the milk is sour.
None of the men are single.(All of the men are not single.) None of the orange juice was left.
None of the men wass my father.(Not any of the men was my father.)

Unusual usage:

Five gallons of gas is enough. Five gallons of punch were sold.
Three-fourth of the pie of gone. Three-fourths of the pie are gone.

Mary has three brothers. One of them lives in New York. One lives in the East.
Another(one) lives in California. The others live in the West.
The other(one) lives in Hawaii.
John has two sisters. One(of them) lives in New York.
The other /another lives in Ohio.
Do any of them live in California? Yes, all of them do. Yes, some of them do.
No, one of them do.
Do all of them live in the West? Yes, they all do.
(Do they all live in the West?) Yes, one of them does. Yes, some of them do.
No, some of them live in the East.
Do both of them live in California? Yes, they both do.No, neither of them does.

 
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