LittleDan wrote:
*Neither the kids nor Michael (likes/like) to go to the
park now that they use
Wikipedia.
Plural beats singular, so "like".
(I'm not positive that every authority would agree,
but this is what I've always known.)
*One in six people (uses/use) a peer-to-peer network.
The noun is "one", with "people" merely part of an adjectival
preposition,
so "uses". (I'm positive about this one.)
It's not enough to know the right answer; you must know why! ^_^
(I put my guesses in bold). My mom and I can't
definitively tell which one
is right. For these, it is a matter of which grammarian you talk to. If you
insist on perfect grammar, something like this may cause excessive back-and
fourth editing, maybe even an edit war. I'm just thinking worst-case-scenario.
Indeed, should such an edit war come up, we'd need to remember
not to sweat the small stuff. Even the species capitalisation
is important primarily because it affects naming conventions.
-- Toby