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Expanding Your Knowledge MAKING WORDS ‘AGREE’ As well as the pronouns in the previous chapter there are a number of other pronouns. Because some of these are singular and some are plural, the verb is often incorrectly used with singular pronouns. Look at the following examples: Each of you have been given a pencil. Each of you has been given a pencil. The second example is correct. ‘Each’ is a singular pronoun and therefore ‘has’ should be used as it refers to one person or thing. Look at the following examples: She (one person) has a pencil. (singular) They (several people) have been given pencils. (plural) Some other pronouns which are singular and should always be followed by the singular form of the verbs are: everyone, nobody, anything, something: Everyone comes to the match.
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