I am being taken to task over my grammar…
Unfortunately, it was not in a piece of copy that I wrote, but in a headline that was stuck on one of my Huffington Post pieces.
It’s an interesting one - and though various pedant mates have gloated that the grammar is wrong, I’m not sure. Because although I may not all the rules of grammar, I have a pretty good feel for what sounds right… and if it sounds right, then it generally IS right.
It’s why I have no problem at all with split infinitives. You get some nutters who have this knee-jerk reaction to a split infinitive. But a hell of a lot of the time, a split infinitive is not only clearer but it sounds better too.
Anyway… on this particular point…
The headline for the piece was “None of us know ‘The Real Kate’…
And my pedant chums are telling me that it should be “None of us knows ‘The Real Kate’…
Their reasoning is that “None” is a singular, short for “No one”…
But I reckon that, actually, the first sounds better…
What do we reckon?