Re: CHAT: use of "they"

Baba wrote:
>
> I must admit this throws me a bit. An example was a US Fire-Drill
> poster which said "Make sure all personnel is outside and accounted for".
> or the sentences; "Which one of them is a doctor? None of them is."
> In both cases I'd expect "are" not "is".
>
The first "all personnel is" sounds funny to me, and I am an American.

But in the second, isn't the verb form conjugating with the whole phrase
"which one of them", where I'd think that "one" is the head of the
phrase. The "of them" is a modifier on "one", isn't it?

Laurie
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Laurie Gerholz
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