"none of the employee" or " none of the employees"?

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Should "none of the employee" be "none of the employees"?

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Trump and his termites are doing immeasurable harm to America and the sad part is that most people will never realize what is happening. Trump has proudly bragged that he will do away with two regulations for every new regulation. The Republicans have made regulation a bad word with no consideration whether a regulation serves a purpose. In the last century a regulation put in place forbade child labor up until it was passed child labor was the norm. I saw a picture of the workers at a mine and none of the employee looked to be more than twelve. We take a lot for granted we think the world has always been the way we found it.

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None of the employees.

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@oristarA,

Why do you bother starting threads like this, Ori? You knew the answer. Everybody and his brother did. The guy who made the typographical error knows, and knew when the post was written.

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@layman,

layman wrote:

Why do you bother starting threads like this, Ori? You knew the answer. Everybody and his brother did. The guy who made the typographical error knows, and knew when the post was written.

Good question.

The purpose of creating a new thread like this is to test the level of linguistic awareness (e.g., the level of acceptance of grammatical errors) among native speakers.

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@oristarA,

But your questions are usually answered by the same small group of people.

Surely you’re not testing centrox and his knowledge of English.

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@centrox,

Thank you.

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@chai2,

chai2 wrote:

But your questions are usually answered by the same small group of people.

Surely you’re not testing centrox and his knowledge of English.

Yes, almost a failure: The size of sample is too small to make a conclusion.

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@oristarA,

I guarantee you no native English speaker would have said employee.

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@chai2,

Thank you.

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Sometimes I see typographical errors and it makes me question my knowledge of the language.

At least once, I thought the use of a word was ungrammatical, but it turned out to be grammatical.

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"none of the employee" or " none of the employees"?

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