Question

None of the candidates _____ responded

Answer 1

None of the candidates have responded.

• For English grammatical questions, when we look at the question statement we can depict what the possible answer would be.
• In the sentence above we know the 'have' will be the correct word to fill in the blank as the word 'have' is used with I, we, they and other plural words.

• On the other hand, 'has' is used words like it, she, he.