No and none of are determiners. None is a pronoun. No, none and none of indicate negation. … None of something means not even a small amount of it. None of a group of people or things means not even one of them. None of us knew how to treat her. None of something means not even a small amount of it. None of a group of people or things means not even one of them. The meaning of NONE is not any. How to use none in a sentence. None means ‘not one’ or ‘not any’. We use it as a pronoun to replace countable and uncountable nouns. We use it as subject or object: Slorne stared … and seemed to try to find some strength which would let her speak. But none came. (No strength came.) My mother had two brothers. My father had none. (My father didn’t have any brothers.) While you will likely use none is more often than none are in your daily communications, simply keep in mind that sometimes none can take a plural verb when your context comprises the concept of more than one. Synonyms for NONE: no, never, nothing, hardly, scarcely, by no means, ill, nothing doing; Antonyms of NONE: most, certainly, absolutely, surely, completely, definitely, quite, very None used to replace uncountable nouns should always be singular. None used in place of countable nouns may be either singular or plural, unless the rest of the circumstances or phrasing require it to be one or the other. You only use none of or none to talk about a group of three or more things or people. If you want to talk about two things or people, you use neither of or neither. None comes from the Old English nan, not one, from ne, not and an, one. This word is extremely useful. You can use it to mean zero, like when you had five apples and ate them all, and now you've got none. Or use it for no one, like when none of your friends showed up on time for your birthday party.