Either, Neither, All, Some, None, Both

Описание: 🔹 NEITHER
1️⃣ neither (subject alone → singular verb)
❌ Neither are correct.
✅ Neither is correct.
❌ Neither of them know the answer.
✅ Neither of them knows the answer.
🧠 Exam rule:👉 Neither = not one → singular

2️⃣ neither of + plural noun (still singular!)
❌ Neither of the students are late.
✅ Neither of the students is late.
❌ Neither of my parents work here.
✅ Neither of my parents works here.
🧠 Trap:Plural noun after of does NOT control the verb.

3️⃣ neither…nor (nearest subject rule)
❌ Neither the teacher nor the students is present.
✅ Neither the teacher nor the students are present.
❌ Neither the students nor the teacher are present.
✅ Neither the students nor the teacher is present.
🧠 Exam tip:👉 Verb agrees with the nearest noun.

🔹 EITHER
4️⃣ either (subject alone → singular)
❌ Either are acceptable.
✅ Either is acceptable.
❌ Either of the answers are correct.
✅ Either of the answers is correct.

5️⃣ either of + plural noun (singular verb!)
❌ Either of my sisters live here.
✅ Either of my sisters lives here.
🧠 Memory trick:👉 Either / Neither = one choice → singular

6️⃣ either…or (nearest subject rule)
❌ Either my father or my parents is coming.
✅ Either my father or my parents are coming.
❌ Either my parents or my father are coming.
✅ Either my parents or my father is coming.

🔹 ALL OF
7️⃣ all of + uncountable noun → singular
❌ All of the water are polluted.
✅ All of the water is polluted.
❌ All of the information are correct.
✅ All of the information is correct.

8️⃣ all of + plural noun → plural
❌ All of the students is ready.
✅ All of the students are ready.
❌ All of my friends has arrived.
✅ All of my friends have arrived.

🔹 SOME OF
9️⃣ some of + uncountable noun → singular
❌ Some of the milk are spoiled.
✅ Some of the milk is spoiled.

🔟 some of + plural noun → plural
❌ Some of the boys is absent.
✅ Some of the boys are absent.
🧠 Exam rule:👉 Meaning controls the verb, not the word “some”.

🔹 NONE OF (VERY CONFUSING!)
1️⃣1️⃣ none of + uncountable noun → singular
❌ None of the money are left.
✅ None of the money is left.

1️⃣2️⃣ none of + plural noun → singular OR plural
(Exams prefer singular)
❌ None of the students are present. (casual)
✅ None of the students is present. (exam-safe)
🧠 Exam advice:👉 Use singular verb unless told otherwise.

🔹 BOTH (bonus confusion)
1️⃣3️⃣ both / both of → always plural
❌ Both is correct.
✅ Both are correct.
❌ Both of the answers is wrong.
✅ Both of the answers are wrong.

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ဒီနေ့သင်ခန်းစာမှာကတော့ Either, Either of, Either...or..., Neither, Neither of, Neither...nor..., All of, Some of, None of, Both, Both of တို့နဲဲ့စထားတဲ့ ဝါကျတွေရဲ့ Subject-Verb Agreement အကြောင်းကို လေ့လာရမှာ ဖြစ်ပါတယ်။
Either, Either of နဲ့ Neither, Neither of တိုက singular verb နဲ့ပဲတွဲပါတယ်။ Either...or...နဲ့ Neither...nor...တို့နဲ့စတဲ့ ဝါကျတွေမှာတော့ or/nor တို့ရဲ့အနောက်မှာ ကပ်လျက်ရှိတဲ့ Noun က singular ဆိုရင် singular verb နဲ့ရေး၊ plural noun ဆိုရင်တော့ plural verb နဲ့ရေးရမှာ ဖြစ်ပါတယ်။ Both နဲ့ Both of တို့မှာတော့ plural verb နဲ့ရေးရပါတယ်။
All of, Some of, None of, တို့မှာတော့ countable နဲ့ uncountable noun နှစ်မျိုးစလုံးနဲ့သုံးကြတာဖြစ်တာကြောင့် အကြောင်းအရာအပေါ်မူတည်ပြီး သုံးရမှာ ဖြစ်ပါတယ်။ သို့သော် Exam အတွက် formal ကျကျ ပြင်ဆင်နေတာဆိုရင်တော့ သေခြာရအောင် None of ကို singular verb နဲ့သုံးပါ၊ everyday English speaking မှာတော့ None of ကို plural verb နဲ့သုံးလို့ရတယ်လို့မှတ်ပါ။