Verbal Question

[raj]

Source: Self made to test concept

[Original, full question deleted by Stacey. I've re-written to offer a suggestion as to how you can post something like this, where the full question falls under copyright protection and can't be reproduced in its entirety. Note two things if you're going to do this: (a) you'll have to have a very specific grammar question for this to work, and (b) you may want to post an excerpt of both the right version and the wrong version about which you have a question, when applicable.]

"Women were found to have borne children with heart defects or miscarriages, and none of their pregnancies was normal."

Isnt None of the pregnancies was normal wrong .
INcase of a SANAM pronouns we pick the tense from the of construction in this case pregnancies which is plural so whould be followed by "were"
Am I correct ?

[RonPurewal]

Isnt None of the pregnancies was normal wrong .
INcase of a SANAM pronouns we pick the tense from the of construction in this case pregnancies which is plural so whould be followed by "were"
Am I correct ?

two things:
1 - what does 'self made' mean? it can't mean you wrote the problem yourself, because you claim a 'cited answer'. so - where'd you get this problem?
remember, we have to be sticklers about sources; we can get in big, big trouble if any of our problems turn out to be from banned sources. therefore, please tell us the source of this problem. (and if it really is 'self made', then tell us how you'd get a 'cited answer')

if you don't give the source of the problem (or explain how a 'self made' problem can have a 'cited answer') within a couple of days, then we apologize but we'll have to delete the thread.

2 - no, 'none' is fine as either singular or plural. the singular is more formally preferred (you can think of 'none' as a contraction of 'not one', even though it really isn't), but either of the two forms is fine.
your stated criterion here won't help, because it's impossible to write anything of the form 'none of X' unless X is plural. (therefore, if you followed the rule you're propounding, you'd end up concluding that 'none' must be plural in all cases.)

[StaceyKoprince]

Hi, raj

Can you please clarify something for me?

You said

Source: Self made to test concept

and then you said:

The cited answer is D

How is there a "cited" answer if you are the author of the question? Please clarify. If you are not actually the author of this problem, please cite the author or we will have to delete it...

[jumbo]

Hi, raj

Can you please clarify something for me?

You said

Source: Self made to test concept

and then you said:

The cited answer is D

How is there a "cited" answer if you are the author of the question? Please clarify. If you are not actually the author of this problem, please cite the author or we will have to delete it...

This is 1000SC question with stem modified . Can we post like that?

[StaceyKoprince]

Unfortunately, no. The 1000SC question bank includes illegally-copied material for which the creators of the bank did not get proper copyright permission. We can't host questions that are substantially like questions for which someone else holds the copyright and has not provided permission for general use.

You can, if you like, post just part of a sentence, if your question is about one specific grammar issue. A few words or a phrase = okay under copyright law.