Pronouns as Subjects

1. Indefinite pronouns (somebody, someone, anybody, something, anything); universal pronouns (everybody, everyone, everything, each); negative pronouns (nobody, no one, neither, etc.) have a singular predicate:

Everyone thinks he has the answer.

There was nothing to attract our attention.

Nobody has come except him.

However the negative pronoun none may have a singular or a plural verb-predicate, it depends whether one person is meant or more than one:

None of us understands/understand it.

2. Interrogative pronouns who, what have a singular verb-predicate:

Who is this man? What is there?

If the question refers to more than one person, a plural predicate may be used:

Who are with him? Who have agreed to act?

3. If the subject is expressed by a relative pronoun (who, which, that) the verb-predicate agrees with its antecedent:

It is I who am wrong. It is you who are wrong.

You are the one who is wrong. I don’t know the boys who live next door.

Shish Kebab is one of those dishes, which have to be cooked outdoors.

4. The universal pronoun both has a plural predicate:

Which of the books are yours? Both are mine.

5. The pronoun all in the sense “всё” has a singular verb, while all in the sense все has a plural verb:

All is well that ends well.

All were ready by that time.